THE PEPPER TRADER: True Tales of the German East Asia Squadron and the Man who Cast them in StoneAuthor: Geoffrey BennettPublisher: Equinox PublishingPages: 392

KNOWING that I was then hard at work on a little book about the British military intervention in Indonesia in 1945-46 that had been inspired by visits to Commonwealth graveyards in Java, Ian Swan, a retired British Army officer then living in the Bogor area asked if I would like to see the