David Jardine

THE Dutch, displaced as a colonial power by the Nazi German occupation of their country and the Japanese overthrow of their East Indies possession, faced the end of the World War a beleaguered nation. The winter of 1944-45, known as the Famine Winter, had brought down on them further brutal privations. In the East, meanwhile, tens of thousands of Dutch, many of them civilians, many of them women and children, were prisoners in the Ja