Buruma, Ian. <br/><br/>
Year zero :  a history of 1945 / 
Ian Buruma. 
 - 368 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-353) and index. 
<br/><br/>Part 1 Liberation Complex<br/><br/>Chapter 1 Exultation 13<br/><br/>Chapter 2 Hunger 53<br/><br/>Chapter 3 Revenge 75<br/><br/>Part 2 Clearing the Rubble<br/><br/>Chapter 4 Going Home 131<br/><br/>Chapter 5 Draining the Poison 169<br/><br/>Chapter 6 The Rule of Law 203<br/><br/>Part 3 Never Again<br/><br/>Chapter 7 Bright Confident Morning 241<br/><br/>Chapter 8 Civilizing the Brutes 275<br/><br/>Chapter 9 One World 307<br/><br/>Epilogue 335 
<br/><br/> 	<br/>Ian Buruma examines the seven months (in Europe) and four months (in Asia) that followed surrender of the Axis powers, from the fate of Holocaust survivors liberated from the concetration camps, and the formation of the state of Israel, to the incipient civil war in China, and the allied occupation of Japan. If construction follows destruction, 'Year Zero' describes that extraordinary moment in between, when people faced the wreckage, full of despair, as well as great hope 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781848879379 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013007702 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>World War, 1939-1945--Peace.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Influence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>History, Modern--1945-1989.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>940.5314 BUR