Wages of Guilt. Memories of War in Germany and Japan, Paperback - Ian Buruma

In Wages of Guilt, Ian Buruma explores the duplicity of feeling towards World War II amongst the people of two very different participant countries...

'A Japanese Mirror is what the tourist who wants to see the real Japan - "through the looking glass" - should pack in his flight-bag.' TLS

During World War II, Allied bombing obliterated every major German and Japanese city. Based on extensive archival sources, interviews with bombing ...

Features 12 accounts that describe the battle experience, the different nations' attitudes toward imprisonment, and the often-barbaric treatment of...

Reducere. When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans reacted with revulsion and horror. In the patriotic war fever that follow...

This stunning work of precision, intelligence and humanity is now available in paperback.

Reducere. Japanese-Americans were forcefully removed from their homes and businesses, and placed in "relocation" camps throughout the West. With countless in...

With the end of the Second World War Britain needed time to recover; it could not face another war, but the new threat of Soviet hegemony put paid ...

A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the ele...

Reducere. The Patriarchy is over...Elainea is placed in a position she never wanted, to be someone she never thought she could become. Everything they fought...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. ``Remarkable.... The first comprehensive history of the war written from the perspective of the Central Powers.`` --Los Angeles Review of BooksFor ...

Over 185, 000 British military servicemen were captured by the Germans during the First World War. Utilising official government reports alongside ...

Reducere. One life, two choice: hate or forgiveness? Which one will you choose? From childhood to adulthood, a father I sometimes likened to Hitler, bombings...

Reducere. Yaeko Sugama Weldon's memories of a poor but happy childhood shattered by the destruction of war offer a window to a different culture and an eye-o...

Former editor of }The New York Review Of Books{ Ian Buruma looks back on the underground culture of Tokyo in the 1970s, considering how his outside...

A pleca de la zero inseamna a lua totul de la capat. Dar oare poti sa iei totul de la capat dupa un razboi care a schimonosit planeta? Poti sa ceri...

A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the ele...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas ChildersOn April 21, 1945, the twelve-member crew of the Black Cat set off on one of the last air missions in the Eu...

Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Jonathan ClementsIllustration(s): over 75 color and b&w photographs and mapsNumber of pages: 320Publication ...

Reducere. In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908-1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain i...

Reducere. Numbering 4, 000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro d...

A prelude to Modernism - the diverse era of Romanticism in Germany and RussiaPublisher: Hirmer VerlagAuthor(s): State Tretyakov Gallery MoscowIllus...

Reducere. The author grew up in Germany during the postwar era, when the United States evolved from a military occupation force to a peacetime cultural power...

Reducere. New York Times Bestseller: A "virtually faultless" account of the last weeks of WWII in the Pacific from both Japanese and American perspectives (T...

Reducere. For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How muc...

Anul Zero. 1945, o istorie - Ian Buruma

The battlefield of 17th Century Europe On land, the Thirty Years War was fought primarily in Germany. It was one of the most destructive conflicts ...

Reducere. When author Gail Okawa was in high school in Honolulu, a neighbor mentioned that her maternal grandfather had been imprisoned in a World War II con...

Reducere. „O carte monumentala, coplesitoare prin maretie si realism.“ (Wall Street Journal) A pleca de la zero inseamna a lua totul de la capat. Dar oare po...

Reducere. The Krupp family were the premier German arms manufacturers from the middle of the 19th century until the end of World War II, producing artillery ...

DescriptionLiliane Leila Juma was sixteen years old when her family home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was destroyed by rebel soldiers. S...

Originally published in 1985, this book provides an important insight into the principal aspects of the history of the policy and practice of polit...

Reducere. Did you know that Germany is a relatively new country? Its many different states only united in 1871, and it reunited after the fall of the Berlin ...