Good book
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was a tremendously enlightening book. Most of us know that 1945 was a pivotal year in world history; that it marked the end of the biggest human catastrophe the world had ever witnessed; and that it marked the start of a new world configuration. The genius of this book is to bring out the details of that fateful year so that the reader feels both the promise and the failure that marked that time in history. Much of the book is not easy reading, in that some horrors are beyond the capacity of the modern mind to comprehend; this is not to say that it is difficult reading due to the writing or the complexity of content, for it is actually quite accessible and quite well written.