Author: VAN DER POST, LAURENS.
Title: The Night of the New Moon.
Description: London, The Hogarth Press. 1971, 5e Edition. (ISBN: 0701203404) . Book, "The night of the New Moon", is august 6, 1945, the end of the day on which the world's first atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. At that moment in time, Laurens van der Post was in a Japanese prison camp in Java. For him and the thousands of prisoners in the hands of the japanese in South East Asia, Hiroshima was not the remote and irrelevant event distance would suggest, but something which had a direct and profound influence on their fate. With photographs. Cloth with jacket. 157 p. Hardcover. Good.

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