The Admiral's Baby: an Extraordinary Episode in Twentieth-Century History

by Post, Laurens van der

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NY: William Morrow, 1996. 1st American printing. Fine/Fine. xii, 340 p., frontis, index, 8vo;

Book summary

An autobiographical account of van der Post's release from a Japanese prison camp on the Java at the close of the Second World War. In a bizarre twist of fate, his former captors, hoping to preserve the peace in a land on the brink of turmoil, ask him to stay on until the allied troops arrive.