"Captivating images of band members on stage, with fans, and in official photos, and detailed images of album covers, disc labels, cassette boxes, and all sorts of memorabilia frame approachable descriptions of specific events and the surrounding history. A complete tour schedule including all of the earliest dates and the dates of 18 official tours is included, as is a bibliography of over 60 album reviews in a wide variety of magazines. All-in-all, this is a visually stunning and worthwhile read. It is both entrancing and heartfelt while at the same time informational, genuine and candid, and the reverence felt for the band by the author is contagious."
--Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal

"Depeche Mode fans know that Monument is a song on its seminal 1982 album A Broken Frame. It's a fitting title for this encyclopedic yet intimate photo book that covers the band's career, with a special section devoted to fan culture."
--Los Angeles Times, Holiday Gift Guide

"Featuring more than one thousand objects from Burmeister's archive, Monument is a detailed chronology of the band who--after 100 million album sales--still show no sign of stopping."
--Dazed

"A bonanza for the serious Depeche Mode lover."
--The Current (Minnesota Public Radio)

"The massive coffee table book is graphically appealing and well designed, as befits a tribute to a group who were almost as visual at their inception as they were musical."
--Shepherd Express

"Even if you think you know everything there is to know about Depeche Mode...there is surely something new to learn here."
--Philadelphia Gay News

"Essential...Monument is everything it aspires to be, an impressive achievement and a fine gift for the Depeche Mode fan in your life."
--PopMatters

"This book-long love letter from some of the Depeche Mode's diehard fans...This is a meticulous, obsessive compilation of the band�