The Wages of Guilt by Ian Buruma
Between the early 1930s and 1945, Germany and Japan went on the most destructive rampage the world has ever seen. The atrocities committed by their armies and police forces became a byword for human cruelty. Ian Buruma's new book is about the way the Germans and Japanese cope with this terrible past. It is about the painful realities of living with guilt, and of denying it. He meets people who will amaze the reader by the ingenuity of their evasion of responsibility. He goes to Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Hiroshima to see how history at its worst is remembered. He visits grotesque monuments, such as the Japanese shrine to the Kamikaze pilots.
Ian Buruma was educated in Holland and Japan, and spent many years in Asia. He has become one of the most distinguished writers of his generation on the Far East, in books such as God's Dust (Vintage) and A Japanese Mirror and in his essays for The New York Review of Books. He has also written a novel, Playing the Game, a ficitonal biography of K. S. Ranjitsinhji, the Indian Prince who played cricket for the MCC in Edwardian Britain.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224031387 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224031384 |
| Title | The Wages of Guilt |
| Author | Ian Buruma |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1994-06-16 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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