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A history professor describes the events during the year World War II ended, beginning a new era of prosperity in America, rebirth and rebuilding in Europe, and the start of the Cold War era.
A global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II. 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, the euphoria of the liberated was extraordinary. The postwar years gave rise to the European welfare state, the United Nations, decolonization, Japanese pacifism, the European Union, and the Cold War.--From publisher description.… (más)
Even though we get along well, my father and I see the world very differently. This book does more than any other to help me understand the perspective of my father's generation. More than a mere reporting of events, Burma delves into the minds of the people living through them. ( )
The war ended in 1945, but, otherwise, 1945 was a pretty awful year. Year Zero is a depressing read. Nonetheless, it's well-written and it helped me understand how we ended up where we are now. It also filled in my understanding of the difficult decisions that had to be made after the war by governments and individuals alike. ( )
As another reviewer said, this book is both history and social commentary. The book lays out much of the hardship and horrors of the end of WW II, and some of the hopes that the end of the war brought out. I've heard and read about many of these events before, but to have them all together in this book gave me a glimpse of what it might have been like to live through the year of 1945.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
A Klee drawing named "Angelus Novus" shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contempating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we preceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe that keeps piling ruin upon ruin and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress. - Walter Benjamin - Ninth Thesis on Philosophy of History
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
To my father, S.L. Buruma, and to Brian Urquhart
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
When Allied troops in Germany liberated millions of prisoners of Hitler's fallen Reich - in concentration camps, slave labor camps, prisoner of war camps - they expected to find them docile, suitably grateful, and happy to cooperate in any way they could with their liberators.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
But that is no reason not to pay tribute to the men and women who were alive in 1945, to their hardships, and to their hopes and aspirations, even though many of these would turn to ash, as everything eventually does.
A history professor describes the events during the year World War II ended, beginning a new era of prosperity in America, rebirth and rebuilding in Europe, and the start of the Cold War era.
A global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II. 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, the euphoria of the liberated was extraordinary. The postwar years gave rise to the European welfare state, the United Nations, decolonization, Japanese pacifism, the European Union, and the Cold War.--From publisher description.
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