

Prisoners of History
What Monuments to World War II Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves
Author: Keith Lowe
Narrator: Keith Lowe
Unabridged: 10 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 12/15/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Architecture, Psychology
Synopsis
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 seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of the war, Prisoners of History is a twenty-first-century view of a twentieth-century war that still haunts us today.