by Ian Buruma
As good as history gets. Year zero is a history of 1945 and the hopes for change that it brought and the gutting of those dreams. In the words of a reviewer, "..A heart-wrenching account of the horrors,the unimaginable cruelties, and the sheer stupidities of the last months of WWII, and the attempt ...
The subject of the immediate post-World War II period has been popular in history books in recent years, including William I. Hitchcock's The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe, Tony Judt's Postwar and Tony Judt's The Politics of Retribution in Europe. These are all ex...
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