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Buruma, Ian.
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History, Modern -- 1945-1989.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Peace.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence.
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Buruma, Ian.
History, Modern -- 1945-1989.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Peace.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence.
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Year
zero
: a
history
of
1945
/ Ian Buruma.
by
Buruma, Ian.
The Penguin Press, 2013.
Call #:
940.5314 B974y
Subjects
History
, Modern -- 1945-1989.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Peace.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence.
ISBN:
9781594204364
1594204365
Alternate title:
History
of
1945
Year
0
Description:
368 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-353) and index.
Contents:
Exultation -- Hunger -- Revenge -- Going home -- Draining the poison -- The rule of law -- Bright confident morning -- Civilizing the brutes -- One world.
Summary:
"
Year
Zero
is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in
1945
. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, and of course Japan) and all of continental Europe. Out of the often vicious power struggles that ensued emerged the modern world as we know it. In human terms, the scale of transformation is almost impossible to imagine. Great cities around the world lay in ruins, their populations decimated, displaced, starving. Harsh revenge was meted out on a wide scale, and the ground was laid for much horror to come. At the same time, in the wake of unspeakable loss, the euphoria of the liberated was extraordinary, and the revelry unprecedented. The postwar years gave rise to the European welfare state, the United Nations, decolonization, Japanese pacifism, and the European Union. Social, cultural, and political "reeducation" was imposed on vanquished by victors on a scale that also had no historical precedent. Much that was done was ill advised, but in hindsight, as Ian Buruma shows us, these efforts were in fact relatively enlightened, humane, and effective. A poignant grace note throughout this
history
is Buruma's own father's story. Seized by the Nazis during the occupation of Holland, he spent much of the war in Berlin as a laborer, and by war's end was literally hiding in the rubble of a flattened city, having barely managed to survive starvation rations, Allied bombing, and Soviet shock troops when the end came. His journey home and attempted reentry into "normalcy" stand in many ways for his generation's experience. A work of enormous range and stirring human drama, conjuring both the Asian and European theaters with equal fluency, "
Year
Zero
" is a book that Ian Buruma is perhaps uniquely positioned to write. It is surely his masterpiece."--Jacket.
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