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If you are interested to find out more about the Dutch East Indies in World War II,
than please check the following list of books. Some of these books are out of print
and can only be found through a "book finder" or special dealers who specialize in
that type of book. Many of these books have also been published in England, Australia
or the Netherlands and you may find it difficult to obtain them. However, I very much
advise you to check your local library before going searching for your 'wanted' books
via various internet bookstores or special "book finders". You never know. Maybe the
book who are looking for is already on a shelf of your town's library.
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"The Battle of the Java Sea" by F.C. Van Oosten
"A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941-1945)" by Paul S. Dull
"Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945" by H. Jentschura, D. Jung, & P. Mickel
"Zij vochten op de zeven zeeλn" by K.W.L. Bezemer
"Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1904-1945" by D. Carpenter and N. Polmar
"De Koninlijke Marine in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Volume II" by Ph. M. Bosscher
"Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog" (various parts) by L. de Jong
"Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War" by E. LaCroix and L. Wells II
"The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949: Survivors' Accounts of Japanese Invasion and Enslavement of Europeans and the Revolution that Created Free Indonesia" by Jan A. Krancher
"World War II at Sea" by Colin McIntyre
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
"I-Boat Captain" by Zenji Orita
"The Battle of the Java Sea" by David Thomas
"Old friend, new enemies. The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy. Strategic Illusions 1936-41" by Arthur J. Marder
"The Imperial Japanese Navy" by A. Watts and B. Gordon
"Warships of World War II" by H. Lenton & J. Colledge
"Another Six Hundred. The Asiatic Fleet destroyers" by J. Daniel Mullin
"The Final Campaigns - Australians at War 1939-1945, Volume VII" by Gavin Long
"The New Guinea Offensives - Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 1 Volume VI" by David Dexter
"Different kind of victory: A Biography of Admiral Thomas C. Hart" by James Leutze
"The Cresent and the Rising Sun, Indonesian Islam under the Japanese Occupation 1942 - 1945" by Harry J. Benda
"Hr.Ms. K XVII en Hr.Ms. O 16. The loss of two Dutch submarines, K XVII and O 16, in the South China Sea (1941). De ondergang van twee Nederlandse onderzeeboten in de Zuid-Chinese Zee (1941) " by Dr. P.C. van Royen and others
"Mr. Michel's War. From Manila to Mukden: An American navy officer's war with the Japanese, 1941-1945" by John J.A. Michel
"Silent Victory" by Clay Blair, Jr.
"The Story of Dr. Wassell" by James Hilton
"Where Away. The Odessy of the USS Marblehead" by George Sessions Perry
"The Bells of Sunda" by David Burchell
"HMS Electra. An account of a British destroyer which was eventually sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea" by T.J. Cain & A. V. Sellwood
"Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945" by J. Rohwer and G. Hummelchen
"De Nederlandse koopvaardijvloot in de Tweede Wereldoorlog" by L.L. von Mόnching
"Pigboat 39 - An American sub goes to war. The story of US submarine S-39 on her patrols in Dutch East Indies" by Bobette Gugliotta
"Royal Netherlands Navy" by H. T. Lenton
"Wind Tracks of the Water" by Harold J. Hill
"The life of Sir Edward Dunlop. The surgeon which became a legend in POWs camps on Java" by S. Weary Ebury
"East Indies episode. The story of the staff in the East Indies Oil Areas of the Royal Dutch-Shell Group during 1941-1942" by J. Fabricius
"Proud Echo. The story of those who survived the sinking of the Australian cruiser Perth, which sank off Java during March 1942" by Ronald Mckie
"Onze vliegers in Indiλ" by C.C. Kόpfer
"The Japanese Experience in Indonesia, selected memories of 1942 - 1945" by Anthony Reid
"De geschiedenis van de militaire luchtvaart van het KNIL 1942 - 1945" by O.G. Ward
"Foo'Foo - A Japanese American prisoner of the Rising Sun. A Gunner 131st Field Artillary Texan National Guard - The Lost Battalion' recalls the defence of Java in 1942 and life under the Japanese" by Frank Fujita
"Fight it out. The Captain of HMS Exeter tells this story" by Captain Oliver L. Gordon
"As Luck Would Have It" by John A. Collins
"Ship of Courage" by Brenda Whiting
"Doomed Battalion. The story of Australian soldiers on Timor Island" by Peter Henning
"Operation Pacific. A detailed account of the Royal Navy's contribution to the war in the Pacific" by Edwyn Gray
"Japanese Naval Aces and Fighter Units in World War II" by Ikuhiko Hata and Yasuho Izawa
"Japanese Destroyer Captain" by Captain Tameichi Hara
"Fading Victory. The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki 1941-1945" translated by Masataka Chihaya
"Barbed Wire and Bamboo: Australian POWs in Europe, North Africa, Singapore, Thailand and Japan." by Hugh V. Clarke and Colin Burges
"Prisoners of war: Australian's under Nippon" by Hank Nelson
"Attention Fool! USS Houston Survivor" by William Weissinger
"The longest retreat. The story of a British officer of the 3rd Ghurka Rifles, which served in Burma, Honk Kong, Java, Malaya, Eritrea and Egypt" by T. Carew
"Blind to misfortune. The story of POW, which lost both eyes and both hands during imprisonment time on Java Island" by B. Griffiths
"The First South Pacific Campaign. Fundamental strategies of both the Allies and the Japanese from January 1942 -June 1942" by John.B. Lundstrom
"Het vergeten squadron- (18 Squadron NEI RAAF in Australia)" by Rene Wittert
"Sandakan - The last march. The story of Australian and British POWs held in Java and British North Borneo" by Don Wall
"Independent Company. The 2/2 and 2/4 Australian independent companies in Portuguese Timor 1941-1943" by Bernard Callinan
"A doctor's war. The autobiography of RAF doctor, captured in Java and eyewitnessed the tradegy in Nagasaki" by A. MacCarthy
"Out of the smoke. The story of those who survived the sinking of the Australian cruiser HMAS Perth, off Java during" by Ray Parkin
"Schepen van de Koninklijke Marine in W.O. II. Technical data and brief history of the ships of the Royal Dutch Navy during World War II" by Chris Mark
"Battle for Palembang. The story of Allied troops which defended Palembang in those crucial days" by Terence Kelly
"The Japanese Navy and the Pacific War (2 Vols)" by Kudo Michihiro (in Japanese)
"No surrender. The story of W.E. Johns, DSM Chief Ordnance Officer and how he survived after the sinking of HMS Exeter in the Java Sea in March 1942" by W.E. Johns & R.A. Kelly
"The Sparrows. An account of member of the 79th LAA Battery RA send to Java to protect the airfields" by Tony Paley
"H.M.A.S. Perth: Story of the 6 inch cruiser 1936-1942" by Alan Payne
"Gull Force, survival and leadership in captivity 1941-1945" by Joan Beaumont
"Prisoner Of War: History of the "Lost Battalion" by Clyde Fillmore
"Escape to captivity. A British soldiers story of escape from Singapore in 1941 only to be recaptured in Sumatra and become a POW of the Japanese" by P. Hartley
"Bloody Shambles. Volume I. The fall of Singapore. Volume II. The defence of Sumatra to the fall of Burma" by C. Shores & Y. Izawa
"Their last tenko. An autobiographical account of 242nd RAF Squadron posted to Java and captured by the Japanese. The survivors were incarcerated in brutal conditions on the Island of Haruku and forced to work on airfield construction" by James Home
"Australian official histories (AU) series I- Army- The Japanese Thrust-Vol. IV. This book describes the operations of the Australian Army in the early months of the war against Japan. The fall of Singapore, and the end in Java" by Lionel Wigmore
"Ambon Island of Mist: 2/21st Battalion AIF (Gull Force) Prisoners of War 1941-45" by Courtney T. Harrison
"The fall of General Gordon Bennett. General Gordon Bennett was Australian commanding officer in Malaya, from where he managed to escape to Sumatra, and from there to Australia" by A.B. Lodge
"De Luchstrijd rond Borneo. Detailed account about the battle in the air with the Japanese around Borneo of the Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force (ML-KNIL)" by P.C. Boer
"Spice Island Slaves. The story of British POWs on Haruku Islands" by Leslie J. Audus
"Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific" by Gavan Daws
"USS Houston: The Last Flagship of the Asiatic Fleet" by Heber A. Holbrook
"A Thousand Cups of Rice" by Kyle Thompson
"The British Sumatra Battalion" by A.A. Apthorp
"Through a harsh dawn. Author was as a young boy interned by the Japanese in Sumatra" by Hendrik L. Leffelaar
"The Last Battle Station: The Saga of the USS Houston" by Duane P. Schultz
"The Ghost that Died at Sunda Strait" by Walter G. Winslow
"Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War" by Rene J. Francillon
"The Fleet the Gods Forgot: The US Asiatic Fleet in World War II" by Walter G. Winslow
"Darwin 1942, Australias darkest hour" by Timothy Hall
"Opdracht Sumatra: het Korps Insulinde 1942-1946" by J.Th.A. de Man
"The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II" by Carl Boyd and Akihiko Yoshida
"Pawns of War - The Loss of the USS Langley and the USS Pecos" by Dwight Messimer
"Cruisers of World War II" by M.J. Whitley
"The Lost Battalion" by Hollis G. Allen
"Captives: Australian Army nurses in Japanese prison camp" by Catherine Kenny
"Special File: Australians executed by the enemy, 1939-1945" by James McClelland
"Ring of Fire, Australian guerilla operations against the Japanese in World War II" by D.C. Horton
"Never Unprepared, 26 Infantry Battalion AIF 1939-1946, (includes Merauke & Torres Strait 1942 thru 1944" by A.N. Turrel
"Singapore the Pregnable Fortress, study in deception, discord and desertion" by Peter Elphick
"Mountbatten, the official biography" by Philip Ziegler & William Collins
"The Eavesdroppers, best kept secrets of World War II" by Jack Bleakley
"Australia's Pearl Harbor. Air attack on Darwin, February 1942" by Douglas Lockwood
"The Will to Survive, a privates view as a prisoner of war, Malaya" by Douglas McLaggan
"At the Frontline, experiences of Australian soldiers World War II" by Mark Johnston
"Trapped on Timor. RAAF personnel escape from Japanese occupied territory early World War II" by Colin Humphries
"Last Man Out, surviving the Burma Railroad (includes Netherlands East Indies)" by H. Robert Charles
"The Battles that Shaped Australia" edited by Dr.D.Horner; some contributors Chris Coulthard-Clark, David Day, Gavin Long, Gregory Pemberton, Sado Seno and Denis Warner
"War, Nationalism, and Peasants, Java under the Japanese Occupation 1942 - 1945" by Shigeru Saito
"The Pacific War" by John Costello
"Return from the River Kwai. The story of the survivors of the Thai/Burma Railroad who were sunk on the way to Japan by American submarines" by Clay and Joan Blair
"The Lonely Ships" by Edwin P. Hoyt
"Shobun" by Michael J. Goodwin
"The Railroad to Nagasaki. The story of E Battery 131st F.A. from Java to the shipyards and coal mines of Japan" by Thomas B. Woody
"The Japanese Merchant Marine in World War II" by Mark Parillo
"Destroyers of World War II" by M. J. Whitley
"Empires in the Balance: Japanese & Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942" by H.P. Wilmott
"The Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese & Allied Pacific Strategies February to June 1942" by H.P. Wilmott
"Adriaan Kannegieter ging naar de marine en werkte als Japans Krijgsgevangene aan de Burma-spoorlijn" by Adriaan Kannegieter
"In the Hands of Fate. US Patrol Wing 10" by Dwight Messimer
"Shokan - Hirohito's Samurai - Leaders of the Japanese Armed Forces, 1926-1945" by Richard Fuller
"Evans, David C. and Mark R. Peattie; Kaigun - Strategy, Tactics, and Techmologyin the Imperial Japanese Navy 1887 - 1941" by David C. Evans and Mark R. Peattie
"Vaarwel tot betere tijden" by J.C. Bijkerk and A.C. van den Hout
"Moord en Brand. Oost-Borneo 1942" by C. van Heekeren
"Borneo-doden. Namen van omgekomenen in Nederlands-Indisch Borneo, 1941-1945" by Dr. E. Braches
"Timor 1942: Australian Commandos at War with Japan" by Cristopher C.H. Way
"De Militaire Luchtvaart van het Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger in oorlog (8 december 1941-10 maart 1942)" by J.W.T. Bosch
"Het Vliegerkruis (voor initiatief, moed en volharding)" by H.G. Meijer and R. Vis
"We Were First. Unit history of No.1 Independent Company" by Alexander "Sandy" McNab
"The life of Sir James Brooke: Rajah of Sarawak" by Spenser St. John
"Rising Sun over Borneo: The Japanese Occupation of Sarawak 1941-1945" by Ooi Keat Gin
"Eindstation Pakan Baru 1943-1945" by Henk Hovinga
"Six bells off Java" by William H. McDougall, Jr.
"Armour of the Pacific War" by Steven Zaloga
"Nederlandse Vuurwapens - KNIL en Militaire Luchtvaart 1897-1942" by G. de Vries & B.J. Martens
"Nederlandse Pantser Voertuigen" by C.M. Schulten & J. Theil
"K.N.I.L. Cavalerie 1816-1950" by C.A. Heshusius
"Het Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger 1830-1950" by C.A. Heshusius and H.L. Zwitzer
"Het K.N.I.L. van Tempoe Doeloe" by C.A. Heshusius
"Tanda Mata K.N.I.L." by P. van Meel
"Battle Surface: Japan's Submarine War against Australia 1942-1944" by David Jenkins
"Geillustreerde Atlas van de Japanse Kampen in Nederlands-Indiλ 1942 - 1945" by J. van Dulm, W.J. Krijgsveld, H.J. Legemaate, H.A.M. Liesker, G. Weijers, E. Brache (only in Dutch)
The book was published in November 2000 by Asia Maior in Purmerend, Holland. It is an
atlas-sized book with 224 pages and describes each and every camp, both POW and civilian,
in the whole of Dutch East Indies 1942-1945, in detail with topographic maps, photographs,
descriptions of Japanese commanders, Allied commanders, how many prisoners arrived, when
they arrived or when they left, type of work, deaths and much more. Heartily recommended!
"U-Boat Far From Home. The Epic Voyage of U-862 to Australia and New Zealand, in 1945" by David Stevens
"A Dutch Spy in China" by Colonel Henri J.D. de Fremery; edited by prof. Brill and prof. Teitler
"Rakkasan Taicho Horiuchi Kaigun Daisa no Shogai" by Mitsuharu Uehara
"Bushido" by J.M. Cannoo
"Nederlands-Indiλ 1942: Illusion and disillusion " by Petra Groen and Elly Touwen-Bouwsma
"The Worlds Merchant Fleets, 1939. The Particulars and Wartime Fate of 6,000 ships." by Roger W. Jordan
"The History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The War against Japan." by Grace Person Hayes
"So long, Singapore: About the last ship to evacuate service personnel from Tjilatjap - 2nd March 1942 - the RAF Auxiliary Boat, the Tung Song" by Hugh Campbell and Ron Lovell
"Far Eastern File. The intelligence war in the Far East 1930-1945" by Peter Elphick
"Dutch Administration in the Netherlands Indies" by W. Preger
"Prisoner Doctor: A diary of an RAF Medical Officer POW in Java and Haruku Islands" by Richard Philps
"The Emperor's Guest: The RAF airman account of life as a POW in Java and Haruku Islands" by Don Peacock
"My Life with the Samurai: A POW account of Java and Haruku Islands by the son of a planter in Malaya who joined the RAF. Contains list of all POWs building airstrip at Semarang - late 1942/early 1943" by Anthony Cowling
"The Knights of Bushido: Reports of Japanese War Crimes, including details of DEI POW camps" by Lord Russel of Liverpool
"The Rising Sun in the Spice Islands: A collection of essays about the Japanese occupation of Ambon Island" by Richard Chauvel
"The Ragged, Rugged Warriors: The Air War against the Japanese from 1937 in China to the Battle of Midway" by Martin Caidin-Covers
"History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: The Rising Sun in the Pacific Volume III from 1931 - April 1942" by Samuel Eliot Morison
"Vleugels van de Vloot: De Geschiedenis van de Marine Luchvaartdienst" by L. Honselaar
"The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, Volume I & II" by John Toland
"Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II" by Yuki Tanaka
"Chasing after danger: The RAF airman account of battles for Singapore and Dutch East Indies 1941-1942" by Terence O'Brien
"Als krijgsgevangene naar de Molukken en Flores" by J.H.W. Veenstra
"Under the Rising Sun" by Edward W. Weiss
"NF-bunko of Kojin-sha" by Shinsaku Yamakawa
"The Allied Japanese Conspiracy" by James MacKay
" Wij vochten in het bos. De guerillastrijd op Nieuw-Guinea tijdens de tweede wereldoorlog" by Mauretz Ch. Kokkelink
"Torres Strait Force 1942-1945" by R.A. Ball
"The Fourth Ally - The Dutch Forces in Australia in World War II" by Doug Hirst
"Defending the Northern Gateways" by G. McKenzie-Smith
"No Time For Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II" by Diane Burke Fessler
"Java Koryaku Sen to Guadalcanal Gyokusai Sen" by Takeharu Kimura & Seizo Niwano
"The History of World War II" by Martin Gilbert
"History of the Second World War: The War against Japan, Volume I & II" by Major-General S. Woodburn Kirby
Special Dutch East Indies 1941-1942 Bibliography
prepared by Jacques Jost
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