IrishPenJen (United Kingdom) (2010/06/01): Description: In his first novel Dirk Bogarde draws on his army experience to throw light on a little-known theatre of war: the Dutch East Indies in 1945. Here, in the deceptively bright days and menacingly dark nights of fear and anger and intrigue, he tells a gripping story of survival ... and the drama amd spectacle of life live in times of perilous risk.
