Year Zero, a History of 1945

Häftad bok. Penguin . 1st uppl. 2013.

Gott skick. AN ASTONISHING GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE PIVOTAL YEAR 1945 AS A NEW WORLD
EMERGED FROM THE RUINS OF WORLD WAR HI
It was the end of one world and the beginning of a new, uncertain one. Great cities lay in ruins, their populations decimated, displaced, starving. Harsh revenge was meted out on a wide scale, but the sheer euphoria of the liberated could not be dampened. New regimes rose at an unprecedented rate across Europe and Asia, rushing to fill the vacuum left by the war, and 1945 saw the very creation of the modern world as we know it.
A work of enormous range and stirring human drama, conjuring both the Asian and European theaters with equal fluency, Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the turmoil that ensued after the war's end, the vicious power struggles that were often overshadowed by the celebrations. Ian Buruma's own father appears as a poignant grace note throughout this history. Seized by the Nazis during the occupation of Holland, he spent much of the war as a forced laborer in Berlin. His journey home at the war's end and his attempted return to normalcy powerfully capture the experience of his generation.
"[Buruma is] one of those rare historian-humanists who bridge East and West. ... Year Zero has a down-to-earth grandeur."
—The Wall Street Journal.