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“This book examines why statues were put up, what messages they conveyed, how those messages were challenged, what controversies these statues caused, and why and how they were destroyed. The book is very well-researched and looks at statues as a visible and public form of historical storytelling.” Read more...
The Best History Books: the 2022 Wolfson Prize Shortlist
Carole Hillenbrand, Theologians & Historians of Religion
Our most recommended books
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Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler -
The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding) -
On War
by Carl von Clausewitz -
The Histories
by Herodotus -
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher Browning -
The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam
