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Sto caricando le informazioni... Year Zero: A History of 1945 (edizione 2013)di Ian Buruma
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This book is good but I think Keith Lowe's Savage Continent is a more compelling treatment of the subject. ( ) 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. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)940.53History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War IIClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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