The Seed and the Sower opposed codes of honour. The final segment is Lawrence’s reminiscence of a brief affair with a woman whose name he never learned, shortly before his capture by the Japanese. The Seed and the Sower The Seed and the Sower is a book by South African writer Laurens van der Post, consisting of three interrelated stories blended into a novel, first published in 1963. The novel was filmed in 1983 as "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence", directed by Nagisa Oshima and starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Takeshi Kitano. The first story is set in a Japanese Prisoner of War
My Experiences in the Third World War My Experiences in the Third World War My Experiences in the Third World War by Michael Moorcock was an anthology published by Savoy Books in 1980. The short stories: concern the adventures of a Russian KGB agent. It takes place in an alternate historical timeline during an apocalyptic world war in which the United States and the Soviet Union are allies. The three stories were supposed to be chapters of a commissioned larger book (to be called "Reminiscences of the Third World War") rather than an anthology. However Savoy Books had been convicted the year before in High Court for