In battleworn cities throughout europe and japan to the creation of the United Nations and the continued rise of communism in the soviet union and china. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. In buruma, the henry r. Ruth professor of journalism was educated in japan. Hes won several awards for his work. The publications he writes for include the new york review of books, the new yorker, the New York Times, nrc, and the guardian, which recently published his ileylearn ileylearned review of the book. Among his previous books are taming the gods, murder in amsterdam, and inventing japan 18631964. In year zero, most of which he wrote while he was a fellow at the Common Center in 201112 to the serious envy of his fellow fellows that he was so ructive, hes productive, hes produced a brilliant or trail of the world emerging from the unspeakable horrors of world wor ii in europe and asia. He wanted to know, he writes, what those who lived through the war and its end including his own father we