Laurens van der Post (1963) and "The Night of the New Moon" (1970). Japanese film director Nagisa Oshima based his film "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" (1982) on the last two of these books. Following the surrender of Japan, while his fellow POWs were repatriated, van der Post chose to remain in Java, and on 15 September 1945, he joined Admiral Wilfrid Patterson on HMS "Cumberland" for the official surrender of the Japanese in Java to British forces representing the Allies. Van der Post then spent two years helping to mediate between Indonesian nationalists and members of the Dutch Colonial Government. He had gained trust
My Experiences in the Third World War Volker". 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