The Night of the New Moon
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Book Details
Author(s)Laurens Van der Post
PublisherThe Hogarth Press Ltd
ISBN / ASIN0701203404
ISBN-139780701203405
Sales Rank1,536,165
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
The remarkable story of the author’s experiences in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.
Laurens van der Post was a prisoner in Java when the atom bombs that ended the war destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both a moving memoir of his experiences in the camp and a meditation on the morality of the bombs, this is also a compassionate contemplation of the Japanese guards and their western prisoners.
Laurens van der Post was a prisoner in Java when the atom bombs that ended the war destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both a moving memoir of his experiences in the camp and a meditation on the morality of the bombs, this is also a compassionate contemplation of the Japanese guards and their western prisoners.
