03203cam a2200385 i 4500 1034003372 TxAuBib 20231106120000.0 230309s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023006865 9781639931538 hardback 1639931538 hardback TxAuBib rda Moore, Heather B, author. Under the Java moon [HC] : based on a true story / Heather B. Moore. Salt Lake City : Shadow Mountain, [2023] ©2023. 400 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. "A World War II novel about a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies"-- Provided by publisher. "Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java--living with other Dutch families--had always been peaceful, but when Holland declares war on Japan and the Japanese army invades Indonesia, Rita's family is forced to relocate to a POW camp, and Rita must help care for her little brother, Georgie. Mary Vischer is three months pregnant when she enters the Tjideng women's camp with thousands of other women and children. Her husband, George, is somewhere on the Java Sea with the Dutch Navy, so she must care alone for her young children, Rita and Georgie, and her frail mother-in-law. The brutal conditions of the overcrowded camp make starvation, malaria, and dysentery a grim reality. Mary must do everything she can to keep her family alive.George Vischer survives the bombing of his minesweeper but feels little hope floating on a small dinghy in the Java Sea. Reaching the northern tip of the Thousand Islands would be a miracle. Focusing on of the love of his life, Mary, and his two children, he battles against the sea and merciless sun. He'll do whatever it takes to close the divide between him and his family, even if it means risking being captured by the Japanese. Under the Java Moon highlights a little-known part of WWII history and the impact of war on Indonesia, its people, and the more than 100,000 Dutch men, women, and children who were funneled into prison camps and faced with the ultimate fight for survival. "-- Provided by publisher. 20231106. World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps Indonesia Java Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese Fiction. Prisoners of war Indonesia Java Fiction. Dutch Indonesia Java Fiction. Java (Indonesia) Fiction. Novels. fast Historical fiction. fast Biographical fiction. War fiction. fast