Werner Herzog's 'The Twilight World' is inspired by a WWII Japanese holdout officer
Podcast: NPR's Book of the DayPublished On: Thu Jul 07 2022
Description: Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese intelligence officer during World War II, stationed on a small island in the Philippines. When the Japanese army evacuated, Onoda stayed and fought for 29 more years, living in the jungle and resisting all attempts to convince him the war was over. Renowned filmmaker Werner Herzog tells a fictionalized account of this story in his first novel, The Twilight World. In an interview on All Things Considered, Herzog told Ari Shapiro that he's always been a writer and that this book is finally putting into words a story he had in him for two decades.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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