Why are Germans so well informed on World War II and guilty whilst most Japanese know almost nothing about it? Why do so many Australians feel so virtuous about it? Ian Buruma explores the causes of these varied attitudes.
Why are Germans so well informed on World War II and guilty whilst most Japanese know almost nothing about it? Why do so many Australians feel so virt...
The received myth is that the Japanese are a race so different from the rest of us that no outsider can understand them. Ian Buruma explodes that view with a studied analysis of the way the Japanese perceive and portray themselves in popular culture.
The received myth is that the Japanese are a race so different from the rest of us that no outsider can understand them. Ian Buruma explodes that view...
Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at school at Uppingham and Win was taking music lessons in Hampstead. They were married for more than sixty years, but the heart of their remarkable story lies within the span of the two world wars. After a brief separation, when Bernard served as a stretcher bearer on the Western Front during the Great War, the couple exchanged letters whenever they were apart. Most of them were written during the...
Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters ...
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 electi...
