A.M.H. Willems - Het Einde Van Indië. Indische Nederlanders Tijdens De Japanse Bezetting En De Dekolonisatie. Orig. Edn.

's-Gravenhage, SDU, 1995. Large 8°. Orig. limp glossy coloured wrappers, illustration on front side. 320pp. Ills. and portrs. on 8 plates after orig. photographs, incl. some facsims. after original historical documents, tables and graphs in text, footnotes to contributions at end of volume, list of abbreviations used, personalia of contributors, register of personal names, bibliography, table of contents. A collection of 15 scientific contributions, researching the fate of the Indo-European or Eurasian population of dutch colonial Indonesia under the japanese occupation, 1942-1945 and the decolonization, 1945-1950. Incliding a number of interviews, being personal recollections and experiences on the period, from Paula Gomes, Joop van Tijn, Rudy Boekholt, Noesje Elenbaas-Mondt and Adriaan van Dis; on forced prostitution (socalled comfort girls or troostmeisjes), the Kenpeitai, Internment and evacuation from Indonesian Republican Camps, the Bersiap-period, Eurasians and the R.T.C. (Round Table Conference), &c..Amongst contributors one finds, a.o., Esther Captain, Paul W. van der Veur, J.A.A. van Doorn, Win Rinzema-Admiraal, Elly Touwen-Bouwsma, Mary C. van Delden, P.J. Drooglever, Elsbeth Locher-Scholten..Paperback edn. (as orig. publ.). Good to very good copy. (name of previous owner in corner of f.e.p., a little bit dog-eared).