Year Zero: A History of 1945

by Ian Buruma

Book Overview

A marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143125974
• ISBN13: 9780143125976
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher