Critical eye: book reviews roundup

War Memorial by Clive Aslet, The Streets by Anthony Quinn, I'm Your Man by Sylvie Simmons"Today no village in England would be complete without its grey stone obelisk at the crossroads, its copper plaque, incised with the names of the dead, leaking livid verdigris on to the steps below. But as Clive Aslet shows in this fascinating history of just one particular example, their presence across the country was far from inevitable; they were an innovation springing from what he describes as our firs...

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