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Books in the Debate: New Titles for Autumn 2023


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see also: BOOKS SECTION


FOR AUTUMN 2023

A MAJOR NEW ACADEMIC COLLECTION:

War and Remembrance. World War II and the Holocaust in the Memory Politics of Post-Socialist Europe

Edited by Paul Srodecki and Daria Kozlova

Twelve papers in three sections: “Conceptual Frameworks”, “State Memory Narratives and their Public Perception” and “Museums, Memorials and Monuments as Controversial Objects of Cultural Memory”

Defending History’s comment: “One of the rare academic collections on the subject whose contributors are generally truly independent, in sharp distinction to volumes featuring academics whose state-sponsored jobs, financing, medals, honors and junkets lead them to serve as de facto state history policy surrogates, apologists or ‘history fixers’. This volume is a must-read for the reader desiring to keep abreast with the latest scholarly work in the bona fide investigation of massive state investment in the revision of history.”

PUBLISHED BY BRILL | SCHÖNINGH. PUBLISHER’S PAGE ON THE BOOKPRELIMS & CONTENTSPDF OF FLYER.

A MAJOR NEW WORK OF FICTION:

The Enemy Beside Me

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