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Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time

A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnificently.' Ben Macintyre, The TimesOn the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in common - aside from the fact that each committed wartime acts that led some to see them as national heroes, and others as villains. All three were mythmakers, larger-than-life storytellers, for whom the truth was beside the point. Felix Kersten was ...

An exploration of the nature of collaboration, and all the gray areas between heroism and abject opportunism, through the interwoven stories of three World War II-era collaborators under Nazi and Japanese rule-Kawashima Yoshiko, Felix Kersten, and Friedrich Weinreb"--

In this spellbinding account of three World War Two collaborators, prize-winning historian Ian Buruma examines questions of truth as he investigates their complex and tangled lives.

From one of its keenest observers, a brilliant, witty journey through the "Special Relationship" between Britain and America that has done so much to shape the world, from World War II to Brexit.It's impossible to understand the last 75 years of American history, through to Trump and Brexit, without understanding the Anglo-American relationship, and specifically the bonds between presidents and prime ministers. FDR of course had Churchill, JFK...

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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 election of Donald Trump and Brexit.

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 election of Donald Trump and Brexit.

From one of its keenest observers, a brilliant, witty journey through the "Special Relationship" between Britain and America that has done so much to shape the world, from World War II to Brexit.It is impossible to understand the last seventy-five years of American history, through to Trump and Brexit, without understanding the Anglo-American relationship, particularly the bonds between presidents and prime ministers. FDR of course had Winston...

Ikinci Dünya Savasi hakkinda pek cok kitap yazilmistir ama dünya genelindeki felaketin hemen sonrasina yakindan bakan kitap sayisi azdir.Yüzlerce görgü taniginin anlatimina ve kisisel hikayelere dayanan Sifir Yili, mihver devletlerinin teslim olmasinin ardindan Avrupadaki yedi aylik ve Asyadaki dört aylik süreci inceliyor ve toplama kamplarindan kurtarilan Holokost felaketzedelerinin akibetinden, Israil devletinin kurulusuna, Cinde yeni baslay...

Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970s.

A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970'sWhen Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the world of his upper middleclass youth, what he longed for wasn't so much the exotic as the raw, unfiltered humanity he ...