Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World

Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern WorldA story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world. On a sunny morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and announced the birth of a new nation Indonesia. For three and a half centuries, its people had been subject to Dutch colonial rule. It would take another four years of guerrilla warfare and resistance the

you have to read with some sense

Diana Gordon and Ilsey

and cultural contexts and is examined for the social and aesthetic attributes it was said to possess at the time of its release

showing Indonesia's struggle for independence to be one of the defining dramas of the twentieth century

Allen Ginsberg proclaimed Arthur Rimbaud as the first punk: a visionary mentor to the Beats for both his recklessness and his fiery poetry

PLUS: A new essay by film critic David Sterritt and a 1963 reprint by James Jones

making extensive use of previously untapped resources such as diaries and letters from within the ghettoes and camps (many of them in Polish or Yiddish and therefore previously largely inaccessible to Anglo-American scholars) but by adopting a rigorously Judeocentric approach the whole narrative of the march to genocide and its aftermath the book presents a subtly different timeline which casts afresh the horror of the period and engenders a significant re-evaluation of the how and why

Jerry Hall

prizewinning author Elif Shafak brings us a rich

All were complicit

Nikolai's carefully maintained existence is threatened when he meets Anna Khitrova (Naomi Watts)

Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feeling with Mouchette