Heritage of war

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.