Culture clashes

By Review by Deyan Sudjic Review by Deyan Sudjic 2006-02-28T00:00:00

The Destruction of Memory book cover

Robert Bevan's book is remorselessly bleak. It portrays humanity as a monstrously brutal, malevolent species, that throughout its history has constantly resorted to mass murder and policies of deliberate extermination to allow one group to dominate another.

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