TY - BOOK AU - BURUMA Ian TI - Year zero: a history of 1945 SN - 9781594204364 (hbk.) : PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Books, KW - HISTORY, MODERN KW - 1945-1989 KW - WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-353) and index N2 - This sweeping book examines the seven months (in Europe) and four months (in Asia) that followed the surrender of the Axis powers, from the fate of Holocaust survivors liberated from the concentration camps, and the formation of the state of Israel, to the incipient civil war in China, and the allied occupation of Japan. It was a time when terrible revenge was taken on collaborators and their former masters; of ubiquitous black markets, war crime tribunals; and the servicing of millions of occupation troops, former foes in some places, liberators in others ER -