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Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great dilemma that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world acquired ended and a fresh, uncertain one was start. Regime change acquired run into Asia and all of continental Europe. It had been the best global ability vacuum ever sold, and out of the often vicious ability challenges that ensued surfaced today's world as we realize it.In human conditions, the scale of transformation is almost impossible to assume. Great cities surrounding the world lay down in ruins, their populations decimated, displaced, starving. Harsh revenge was meted from a wide scale, and the ground was laid for much darkness to come. At the same time, in the wake of unspeakable reduction, the euphoria of the liberated wasextraordinary, the revelry unprecedented. The postwar years provided climb to the Europeanwelfare state, the United Nations, American democracy, Japanese pacifism, and europe. Society-wide reeducation was imposed on the vanquished on a scale that acquired no historical precedent. Much that was done was ill-advised, however in hindsight these attempts were relatively enlightened, humane, and effective.A poignant grace take note throughout his record is Buruma's own father's story. Seized by the Nazis during the occupation of Holland, he spent a lot of the war in Berlin as a slave laborer and by war's end was literallyhiding in the rubble of the flattened city, having barely managed to survive hunger rations, Allied bombing, and Soviet great shock troops when the end came. His journey home and attempted reentry into "normalcy" stand in, in many ways, for his generation's experience.
A work of gigantic range and stirring human drama, conjuring both Asian and Western theaters with similar fluency, Season Zero is a book that Ian Buruma is perhaps uniquely positioned to write.
