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Marron, Rory

 
9780957630529: Black Sun, Red Moon: A Novel of Java
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ISBN 10: 0957630522 ISBN 13: 9780957630529
Editorial: Seventh Citadel, 2013

Sinopsis

“Your enemy’s enemy is your friend. But for how long….”

A war story with a twist. Based on astonishing true events!

"Exquisitely written…an exciting and exactingly brutal slice of history."— BookLife

“…[it made me] feel like I was living through it, every uncertain, funny or white-knuckled minute.” — Amazon review.

August 1945: News of Japan’s surrender has Mac’s platoon itching to sail home. Suddenly and without explanation they are rushed to the island of Java. Disappointed, the war-weary soldiers console themselves with dreams of tropical weather, fresh food and appreciative locals. Instead they find themselves targets in a new, unreported war. Outnumbered and out-gunned they need help — help only the defeated but still-proud Japanese can provide. To survive both sides must set aside bitter hatreds and stand as allies against a wave of revolutionary terror.

Kenichi Ota had steeled himself for a last, suicidal stand. Saved by his emperor’s capitulation, he will risk his life once more to keep a promise….

For Kate, one of thousands of former prisoners of the Japanese, a fragile, romantic secret threatens her future….

“Black Sun, Red Moon gives us an almost tangible glimpse of the chaos that was Java in 1945-46. It is an ambitious, compelling saga of men at war, captivity, forced prostitution, murder, political dirty tricks and mob terror. Marron's writing — based on painstaking research — is sweeping, poignant, passionate and unflinching.” — Publisher’s Catalog

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Críticas

'The pace zips along!' - Army Rumour Service

Reseña del editor

Japan's defeat looms... Kate dreams of rescue... Her lover prepares his last stand...

"Exquisitely written...an exciting and exactingly brutal slice of history..." — BookLife by Publishers Weekly Prize in Fiction

Kate van Dam is struggling to survive the squalor and deprivation of an internment camp. Faced with a sick mother, little food and medicines she accepts the dubious offer of 'hostess work' at a Japanese officers' club....

  • Japan's surrender saves Lt Kenichi Ota from a suicidal last stand. But to save the woman he loves he will have to draw his sword once again...
  • Highlander Alun MacDonald has had his fill of the British Army but finds himself facing a new, unpredictable foe and having to trust his former enemies with his life...
  • Lamban longs for independence for Indonesia. A chance encounter with an activist plunges him into a teeming, dangerous world of secret societies, plots and the whirlwind of revolution....
  • War Correspondent Meg Graham is expecting to cover Japan's defeat. Instead she is pitched into a ruthless struggle for an empire unrestrained by rules of war.

    • Japan's sudden surrender ends the Second World War but triggers the Indonesian declaration of independence from the Netherlands, catching the returning Dutch and 'Southeast Asia's peacekeepers', the British, by surprise. In a chaotic, mistrustful peace the British order the Japanese to defend the white colonial order. Recent foes have no choice but to become allies...of a kind. In greatest peril are 80,000 European women and children interned by the Japanese. Defenceless, abandoned and half-starved, some of them former sex slaves of the Japanese, they become hostages to fortune. As their former guards become their guardians, protecting them from hostile, armed mobs, hatreds and prejudices are hastily re-examined. British, Gurkha and Indian troops, veterans of the bitter Burma campaign against the Japanese, arrive in Java expecting a warm welcome, grateful civilians and easy duties. Very soon their orders are rewritten, and their mission and motives questioned, as they face determined, massive and frequently suicidal opposition in the war for Java....

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    Editorial
    Seventh Citadel
    Año de publicación
    2013
    Idioma
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    ISBN 10 
    0957630522
    ISBN 13 
    9780957630529
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    Número de páginas
    336
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