Keith Lowe

Prisoners of History (eBook, ePUB)

What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Spectator Book of the Year 2020

A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020
A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020

'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing book should be compulsory reading for both statue builders and statue topplers' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780008339562
• Artikelnr.: 58987830

Autorenporträt

Keith Lowe is the author of Inferno: the Devastation of Hamburg and Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II, which won the 2013 PEN/Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. In 2017 he published The Fear and the Freedom to great acclaim. His books have been translated into twenty languages.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Part I - Heroes
1. Russia: 'The Motherland Calls', Volgograd
2. Russia and Poland: 'Four Sleepers' Monument, Warsaw
3. USA: Marine Corps Memorial, Arlington, Virginia
4. USA and the Philippines: Douglas MacArthur Landing Memorial, Leyte
5. Britain: Bomber Command Memorial, London
6. Italy: Shrine to the Fallen, Bologna
Coda: The End of Heroism
Part II - Martyrs
7. Netherlands: National Monument, Amsterdam
8. China: Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall
9. South Korea: Peace Statue, Seoul
10. USA and Poland: Katyn Memorial, Jersey City
11. Hungary: Monument for the Victims of the German Occupation, Budapest
12. Poland: Auschwitz
Part III - Monsters
13. Slovenia: Monument to the Victims of All Wars, Ljubljana
14. Japan: Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo
15. Italy: Mussolini's Tomb, Predappio
16. Germany: Hitler's Bunker, and the Topography of Terror, Berlin
17. Lithuania: Statue of Stalin, Grutas Park
Coda: The Value of Monsters
Part IV - Apocalypse
18. France: Ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane
19. Germany: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin
20. Germany: Monument to the Victims of the Firestorm, Hamburg
21. Japan: A-Bomb Dome, Hiroshima, and the Peace Statue, Nagasaki
Part V - Rebirth
22. United Nations: UN Security Council Chamber Mural, New York
23. Israel: Balcony at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
24. Britain: Coventry Cathedral
25. European Union: Liberation Route Europe
Conclusion