book cover of The Night of the New Moon
 

The Night of the New Moon

(1970)
(The Prisoner and the Bomb)
A non fiction book by

 
 
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.



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