A look at how our monuments to World War II shape the way we think about the war by an award-winning historian.
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, Prisoners of History 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 The Motherland Calls in Russia, the US Marine Corps Memorial in the USA, Italy's Shrine to the Fallen, China's Nanjin Massacre Memorial, The A Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, the balcony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and The Liberation Route that runs from London to Berlin. 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, ambiguous and more often than not dedicated to the victims. In these differing international views of the war, Lowe sees the stone and metal expressions of sentiments that imprison us today with their unchangeable opinions. Published on the 75th anniversary of the end of the war, Prisoners of History is a 21st century view of a 20th century war that still haunts us today.
Автор: Keith Lowe Название: Savage Continent ISBN: 0141034513 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141034515 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed and pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing, civil war, rape and murder were rife in the days, months and years after hostilities ended.
Автор: Lowe, Keith Название: Prisoners of history ISBN: 0008339554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008339555 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: When World War Two ended, its monuments were built to tell the story. Across the world countries reckoned with the impact of the war and what was to be enshrined in national memory. Today, many of these memorials remain the most visited sites in the world.But what happens when values change, and what has been set in stone does not?
Автор: Lowe, Keith Название: Prisoners of history ISBN: 0008339546 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008339548 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 2640.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: what happens when our values change, but what has been set in stone does not? Bestselling historian Keith Lowe gives a bold new history of our lives since World War Two, told through the stories of our most powerful monuments.
Автор: Lowe Keith Название: The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us ISBN: 1250293766 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250293763 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 2299.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from World War II and how they changed the world.
The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as World War II was ending, The Fear and the Freedom looks at all that has happened since, focusing on the changes that were brought about because of World War II--simultaneously one of the most catastrophic and most innovative events in history. It killed millions and eradicated empires, creating the idea of human rights, and giving birth to the UN. It was because of the war that penicillin was first mass-produced, computers were developed, and rockets first sent to the edge of space. The war created new philosophies, new ways of living, new architecture: this was the era of Le Corbusier, Simone de Beauvoir and Chairman Mao.
But amidst the waves of revolution and idealism there were also fears of globalization, a dread of the atom bomb, and an unexpressed longing for a past forever gone. All of these things and more came about as direct consequences of the war and continue to affect the world that we live in today. The Fear and the Freedom is the first book to look at all of the changes brought about because of World War II. Based on research from five continents, Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom tells the very human story of how the war not only transformed our world but also changed the very way we think about ourselves.
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