Ian Buruma
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Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch,...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
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 the 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 in much of Asia including China, Korea, Indochina, the Philippines, Japan and all of continental Europe. Out of the often vicious power...
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English
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"A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars. During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's grandparents, and the film director John Schlesinger's parents, were, like so many others, thoroughly sundered from each other. Their only recourse was to write letters back and forth....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From one of its keenest observers, a brilliant, witty journey through the "special relationship" between England and America which has done so much to shape the world, from World War 2 to Brexit, through the lens of the fateful bonds between President and Prime Minister"--
Buruma examines the "special relationship" between Britain and America that has done so much to shape the world, from World War II to Brexit. To do so, he specifically looks at...
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