Lest we forget: A history of Britain in ten war memorials

From the Cenotaph on London’s Whitehall to the more contested Bomber Command Memorial in nearby Green Park, war memorials loom large in our national consciousness. But, as we shall see, the way we remember the fallen, and the monumentation that involves, can be both deeply personal and highly political, as each generation seeks to recast the past in ways that inform both the present and the future. For my new book Lest We Forget, I criss-crossed the United Kingdom to visit Britain’s 100 most outstanding memorials to war, speaking to families, veterans, military historians, and others to whom they matter the most, on a quest to gain a better understanding of how our patchwork quilt of