Under the Sun

Under the Sun is set in the closing stages of World War Two in\nthe South Pacific. Flight Lieutenant Edward Strickland is a young\nRAF Spitfire pilot flying sorties over the Carolines and their\noutlying atolls. On a dawn patrol he is shot down attacking a\nsubmarine and ends up on a remote island occupied by a small\nJapanese garrison. The garrisons commander Captain Tadashi Hayama\nbrutally interrogates his captive and a battle of wills develops\nbetween the two men. But events take an unexpected turn and the\nisland becomes, for a while, a kind of Eden. Yet beyond its shores\ndanger lurks and Japans capitulation after the bombings of\nHiroshima and Nagasaki, leads to a climactic end which shatters the\nidyll forever.

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