{"product_id":"2026200017353-secondhand-samurais-and-circumcisions","title":"Samurais And Circumcisions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEqual parts harrowing and darkly comic, Samurais and Circumcisions is the remarkable memoir of Leslie Poidevin, an Australian military doctor whose wartime experiences carried him from the battlefields of World War II into the bewildering cultural landscape of occupied Japan. Poidevin chronicles his service with sharp-eyed wit, recounting the extraordinary demands placed upon a military surgeon navigating both the brutality of war and the absurdities of peacetime occupation, where samurai tradition clashed with the practicalities of modern medicine.\n\nWritten with the candid, self-deprecating humour characteristic of the Australian literary voice, this memoir presents a unique lens through which to view mid-20th-century history — one shaped not by generals and grand strategy, but by the intimate, often surreal encounters of a doctor at the frontline of culture and conflict. Poidevin's narrative reminds us that war is ultimately a deeply human experience, and it is in its strangest, most unexpected moments that the truth of it is most clearly revealed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49210266026203,"sku":"2026200017353-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/95aff45a-225d-445a-a1ce-c1e47b6345a8.png?v=1788268361","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017353-secondhand-samurais-and-circumcisions","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}