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Falsifying history can only increase racial tension

Frank Furedi argues that historic memory is the key to the identity of any coherent community, and that attacking it undermines a population’s solidarity

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  • The War Against the Past: Why the West Must Fight for its History

    Frank Furedi

    Polity Press, pp. 240, £25

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