Ian Buruma

Broschiertes Buch

Year Zero

A History of 1945

Beschreibung

'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

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Atlantic Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781848879393
• ISBN-10: 1848879393
• Artikelnr.: 40407463

Rezensionen

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 David Aaronovitch The Times