War in the Indies: The Dutch in Wartime, Survivors Remember
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (990 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0986830879 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 98 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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I was therein Tjideng, Batavia(Djakarta now), thank you all for writing the book! W. Pruitt I thought the stories were good, but on the mild side, the Japanese were brutal barbarians, I was there at the time and 10 yrs old at the start and we are still suffering from P.T.S.D.Of course it is very good that somebody wrote about it in English, since Americans are oblivious to the fact that the Japanese invaded our Islands, also Malasya, Singapore, the Philipines and other countries and what they really did, all Americans are aware of that they attacked Pearl Harbor, I remember clearly that the word a. War in the Indies: The Dutch in Wartime, Survivors Remember This soft-cover book "War in the Indies: The Dutch in Wartime, Survivors Remember" is a very easy to read book for everyone. It is especially useful for those readers who have no idea whatsoever of what went on during the war time in the Indies. It is also important for second or third generation Indo's, who are spread out all over the world, to learn what their families went through. I say that it is must read for all to gain awareness of the War in the Indies.
'The Dutch in Wartime, Survivors Remember' is a series of books containing the wartime memories of Dutch immigrants to Canada and the USA, who lived through the occupation of the Netherlands and its colonies in World War II. Book 6, 'War in the Indies', covers the occupation of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) by the Japanese and the wholesale incarceration of civilians of European and partial European descent in concentration camps, where a cruel regime caused immense suffering and a high mortality rate.