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, an...
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 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, in the wake of unspeakable loss, the euphoria of the liberated was extraordinary, and the revelry unprecedented. The postwar years gave rise to the European welfare state, the United Nations, decolonization, Japanese pacifism, and the European Union. Social, cultural, and political “reeducation” was imposed on vanquished by victors on a scale that also had no historical precedent. Much that was done was ill advised, but in hindsight, as Ian Buruma shows us, these efforts were in fact relatively enlightened, humane, and effective.
A poignant grace note throughout this history is Buruma’s own father’s story. Seized by the Nazis during the occupation of Holland, he spent much of the war in Berlin as a laborer, and by war’s end was literally hiding in the rubble of a flattened city, having barely managed to survive starvation rations, Allied bombing, and Soviet shock troops when the end came. His journey home and attempted reentry into “normalcy” stand in many ways for his generation’s experience.
A work of enormous range and stirring human drama, conjuring both the Asian and European theaters with equal fluency, Year Zero is a book that Ian Buruma is perhaps uniquely positioned to write. It is surely his masterpiece
Ian Buruma is the Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College. His previous books include The China Lover, Murder in Amsterdam, Occidentalism, God's Dust, Behind the Mask, The Wages of Guilt, Bad Elements, and Taming the Gods.
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1 有用 NEVER4U 2015-08-07 08:49:39
那年非婚生小孩是往年的3X，并且占领区女子都乐意被GI们XX。。。荷兰人就是荷兰人
0 有用 liujhblcu 2015-01-29 17:13:25
一边看，一边听Gildart Jackson的有声书，用了一周多的时间。全英文，理解起来难度不大。Ian Buruma具有世界眼光，作为一个小国的荷兰学者能做到这一点颇为不易。令人想起高罗佩。
0 有用 莉塔小姐 2023-09-01 08:25:58 广东
有些部份不太容易读，有些部份又很吸引人。读下去的话会觉得是非常好的一本书，是对世界二战后历史的一个总结，可以知道很多近代历史事件的逻辑关系，也可以了解不同国家民族的个性，非常enlightening。
0 有用 (+_+) 2021-02-10 17:26:00
是历史课外的史料补充，又是一本是我觉得应该由高中历史或政治老师推荐给学生看的书。不过说深度也是没有的，只能说是把一般人大脑里大纲式的历史年表稍微丰富了一点细节，使纸面上刻板的人物多了一些色彩。于我个人而言，有益的部分在于了解胜利后的purge，尤其是针对女性的迫害，以及战后对轴心国的再教育问题，说到这，这书里简直就没提意大利，荷兰部分都比它多。 另就文本而言，易读，原文基本无困难。
1 有用 hotmark 2015-04-24 18:57:40
对布鲁玛来说，1945年代表着父辈的世界，理解1945年，不仅是出于对于上一代人的天然兴趣，也是对此刻的回应。1945年是一个英雄主义、充满胜利感的年份，这年，世界各地都在上演政权更迭，之后的权力斗争更是相当残酷，在这一过程中，诞生了我们所熟知的现代世界。
0 有用 拉玛诞🌈 2023-10-28 19:54:02 江西
不如Savage Continent，也就补充了一部分其它信息
0 有用 莉塔小姐 2023-09-01 08:25:58 广东
有些部份不太容易读，有些部份又很吸引人。读下去的话会觉得是非常好的一本书，是对世界二战后历史的一个总结，可以知道很多近代历史事件的逻辑关系，也可以了解不同国家民族的个性，非常enlightening。
0 有用 叉叉 2023-03-11 22:17:11 浙江
"The wrong interpretations of the past are more dangerous than ignorance." 读完发觉这实际上是G7的year zero，德法荷日占了很大篇幅，苏联中国东南亚基本算是一笔带过。虽然每章都有主题，但内容还是有点零碎。
0 有用 onlylonely 2022-04-10 08:03:11
开始有很长一段没有办法适应Buruma的写作，虽然每一个chapter是有明确主题的，但chapter内部就写得比较散，大量的历史细节，又常常从对一个国家的书写立刻跳到另一个国家。但后来适应了这种写作之后，还是越来越爱这本书。我欣赏作者在字里行间透露出的对世间痛苦的广泛同情，因为虽然二战结束，集中营、南京大屠杀这些让人们刻骨铭心的灾难已经过去，但一些更容易逃过人们视线的Trauma，在刚刚开始。2... 开始有很长一段没有办法适应Buruma的写作，虽然每一个chapter是有明确主题的，但chapter内部就写得比较散，大量的历史细节，又常常从对一个国家的书写立刻跳到另一个国家。但后来适应了这种写作之后，还是越来越爱这本书。我欣赏作者在字里行间透露出的对世间痛苦的广泛同情，因为虽然二战结束，集中营、南京大屠杀这些让人们刻骨铭心的灾难已经过去，但一些更容易逃过人们视线的Trauma，在刚刚开始。2022年的今天，covid疫情在两年后仍未过去，而是使得种种社会冲突更加激化；乌克兰与俄罗斯的战争到此刻为止已经进入了第四十四天。许多1945年的伤痛未经好好处理而形成而播下的种子，都在慢慢发芽。 (展开)
0 有用 毛衣三百件 2022-02-25 14:35:54
是浮光掠影写得很浅的书，和别的历史书的区分在于它更多着墨在个体在战后的叙事。明明更多的中国人死于二战，明明那么多中国人因为日本的侵略饱受苦难，只因为赢得政权的是马列主义红色分子，这些苦难在作者眼里似乎就被取消了，荒唐