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OCCIDENTALISM: THE WEST IN THE EYES OF ITS ENEMIES by BURUMA, IAN (Paperback - 2005) ISBN: 9780143034872 Subject: CURRENT AFFAIRS Publisher: PENGUIN USA |
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PLAYING THE GAME by BURUMA, IAN (Paperback) ISBN: 9780099914006 Subject: FICTION Publisher: VINTAGE |
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TAMING THE GODS: RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY ON THREE CONTINENTS by BURUMA, IAN (Hardcover - 2010) ISBN: 9780691134895 Subject: RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
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TAMING THE GODS: RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY ON THREE CONTINENTS by BURUMA, IAN (Paperback - 2010) ISBN: 9780691156057 Subject: SOCIETY, POLITICS & PHILOSOPHY Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
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THEIR PROMISED LAND by BURUMA, IAN (Paperback - 2016) ISBN: 9781848879409 Subject: BIOGRAPHY Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS |
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WAGES OF GUILT by BURUMA, IAN (Paperback - 995) ISBN: 9780099477914 Subject: HISTORY Publisher: VINTAGE |
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WAGES OF GUILT by BURUMA, IAN (Paperback - 2009) ISBN: 9781843549604 Subject: SOCIETY, POLITICS & PHILOSOPHY Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS |
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YEAR ZERO by BURUMA, IAN (Hardcover - 2013) ISBN: 9781594204364 Subject: HISTORY (NON-ASIAN) Publisher: PENGUIN PRESS |
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YEAR ZERO by BURUMA, IAN (Paperback - 2014) ISBN: 9781848879393 Subject: WORLD HISTORY Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS |
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YEAR ZERO by BURUMA, IAN (Paperback - 2014) ISBN: 9780143125976 Subject: WAR HISTORY Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS |
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YEAR ZERO: THE HISTORY OF 1945 by BURUMA, IAN (Paperback - 2013) ISBN: 9781848879379 Subject: WAR HISTORY Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS "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" |
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