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28%OFFIan Buruma - Year Zero: A History of 1945 - 9781848879393 - V9781848879393
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Year Zero: A History of 1945

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Description for Year Zero: A History of 1945 Paperback. Ian Buruma's wonderful book is about a time, immediately after the end of the war, which has somehow fallen between the cracks of history, and which the author has now devastatingly brought to light.. A compelling and astounding addition to the literature of the war' Daily Mail Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; HBG; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 382.

Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath of the worldwide catastrophe.

Drawing on hundreds of eye-witness accounts and personal stories, this sweeping book examines the seven months (in Europe) and four months (in Asia) that followed the surrender of the Axis powers, from the fate of Holocaust survivors liberated from the concentration camps, and the formation of the state of Israel, to the incipient ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848879393
SKU
V9781848879393
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About Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, in New York State. Murder in Amsterdam won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 2008.

Reviews for Year Zero: A History of 1945
Buruma's book is a study of the mess that the world was in 1945, a mess we choose largely not to remember. It is also a brief but valuable study of how that mess began to be cleaned up. It gives us, too, simple lessons, both touching and terrifying, about how human beings are and can be... Excellent and lucid ... Read more

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