by Robert Bevan · Reaktion Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781861893192
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«The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War» is the historical essay by Robert Bevan, published by Reaktion Books in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Bevan examines the deliberate destruction of buildings and monuments as a weapon of cultural annihilation, not as collateral damage. He reviews cases such as Kristallnacht, Dresden, New York and Iraq, and argues that erasing heritage is erasing a people's memory; hence he advocates prosecuting those who violate international treaties.
Non-fiction work of 240 pages in English. The paperback edition from Reaktion Books is from 2007; the original work was published in 2005.
For readers of history, architecture and war essays, with an interest in cultural memory.
