THE ADMIRAL'S BABY

by Van Der POST, LAURENS

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New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1997. pp: xii, 340. Frontispiece plus one map. Index. Priced to front pastedown in crayon, else fine. Following his release in wretched condition from a Japanese POW camp in Java, the author, as senior British officer in Indonesia, is requested by the Japanese to help with the transfer of ex-prisoners and internees and at the same time to protect the Dutch from Indonesian nationalists who are opposed to the return to Dutch rule.. ISBN: 0688151043. First U. S. Edition.. Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. History, Military, WW II, Indonesia..

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.