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<p><b>A look at how our monuments to World War II shape the way we think about the war by an award-winning historian.</b><br><br>Keith Lowe, an award-winning author of books on WWII, saw monuments around the world taken down in political protest and began to wonder what monuments built to commemorate WWII say about us today. Focusing on these monuments, <i>Prisoners of History</i> looks at World War II and the way it still tangibly exists within our midst. He looks at all aspects of the war from the victors to the fallen, from the heroes to the villains, from the apocalypse to the rebuilding after devastation. He focuses on twenty-five monuments including <i>The Motherland Calls</i> in Russia, the <i>US Marine Corps Memorial</i> in the USA, Italy’s <i>Shrine to the Fallen</i>, China’s <i>Nanjin Massacre Memorial</i>, <i>The A Bomb Dome</i> in Hiroshima, the balcony at <i>Yad Vashem</i> in Jerusalem and <i>The Liberation Route</i> that runs from London to Berlin. <br><br>Unsurprisingly, he finds that different countries view the war differently. In monuments erected in the US, Lowe sees triumph and patriotic dedications to the heroes. In Europe, the monuments are melancholy, ambiguo

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Author

Keith Lowe

Publisher

St. Martin's Publishing Group

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250235046

Category

nonfiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (61 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14