History titles dominate this year’s Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction longlist, with books about the second world war, American slavery and Europe’s 1848 revolutions being recognised. The longlist of 13, announced today, features Guardian leader writer Tania Branigan’s Red Memory, an exploration of the lasting impacts of China’s Cultural Revolution through the stories of witnesses. Memory is also the theme of another shortlisted title, Jeremy Eichler’s Time’s Echo: The Second World War, The Holocaust, and The Music of Remembrance, which looks at how composers transformed their experiences of the second world war and the Holocaust into musical works. Eichler’s and...
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