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The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949 The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949

by Edited by Krancher, Jan A.

Survivors' accounts of the Japanese occupation and eyewitness stories of the ensuing struggle for an independent Indonesia. Unlike the story of the liberation of the Netherlands, the liberators in Japanese occupied Dutch East Indies in most area's were very long in coming. Instead, the WWII prisoners of the Japanese, particularly the civilians, became the targets of the nationalists. The book covers the Revolutionary period following the Japanese surrender. A must for those who wish to share their own experience with family and neighbours but did not context for this.

Paperback, 288 pages, Chronology, glossary, library binding. Now limited supply.

USD 29.95 / CAD 39.95

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