Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
New York: Bloomsbury, 2001. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 495, notes, index, bookplate on front endpaper, pages are not crisp white (possibly this is how the book was produced). This work addresses a pressing contemporary issue--who owns and controls the past? Decisions taken by those in power in the past cast long shadows into the future. The author explores how nations reinvent themselves after cataclysmic events such as the Holocaust or genocidal war. Includes details of South Africa and its attempts to heal the divisions of apartheid; Japan and the unresolved strugle for truth in World War II; France and its wartime legacy of collaboration; and Germany and the memory battles about the Holocaust. Condition: good, very good.
Keywords: Genocide, Apartheid, Racism, Jews, Anti-Semitism, Auschwitz, Mandela, Nuremberg Tribunal, Holocaust
ISBN: 1582341567
[Book #41355]
Price: $31.50