Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the heritage of war : agency, contingency, identity / Martin Gegner and Bart Zino
  • Hellfire Pass Memorial Museum, Thai-Burma Railway / Joan Beaumont
  • Victory and defeat at Dien Biên Phu : memory and memorialization in Vietnam and France / William Logan and Nguyen Thanh Binh
  • War monuments in East and West Berlin : Cold War symbols or different forms of memorial? / Martin Gegner
  • "Inevitable erosion of heroes and landmarks" : an end to the politics of Allied war memorials in Tarawa? / Judith A. Bennett
  • Commemorating the American Civil War in National Park Service battlefields / Robert K. Sutton
  • Our ancestors the Incas : Andean warring over the conquering pasts / O Hugo Benavides
  • We are talking about Gallipoli after all : contested narratives, contested ownership and the Gallipoli Peninsula / Bart Zino
  • Narrating genocide on the streets of Kigali / Stephanie L. McKinney
  • Remembering and forgetting : South Asia and the Second World War / Yasmin Khan
  • Reconstruction over ruins : rebuilding Dresden's Frauenkirche / Tony Joel
  • Symbols of reconstruction, signs of divisions : the case of Mitrovica, Kosovo / Frank Schwartze
  • Reconstruction as exclusion : Beirut / Esther Charlesworth and Anitra Nelson.