In The Shadow Of The Sun
Subtitle: The true story of a young family interned on Java during Japanese Occupation, 1941-1945
By: Ronny Herman
Edition: First
Publisher: Vanderheide Publishing Co.
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Surrey, B.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Herman family.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Indonesia -- Java.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Dutch.; Prisoners of war -- Indonesia -- Biography.; Prisoners of war -- Netherlands -- Biography.
Genres: Historical Non-fiction
First sentence: As early as the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, explorers from different nations traveled the world in search of new territories to exploit for trading purposes.
Description: In The Shadow Of The Sun describes life in Japanese concentration camps for women in the Dutch East Indies during the Second World War. It deals with the anxieties, frustrations and hopes of a young Dutch mother, Jeannette Herman-Louwerse, and her two small daughters who, like so many others at that time, were caught in a terrifying situation that cost countless innocent civilians their lives.  The book covers the equally unsettling period after the Japanese capitulation when the cry 'Merdeka' for independence was heard throughout the Dutch East Indies. It is an important addition to the limited amount of literature on the Japanese occupatin of Indonesia...
Notes: Includes index.

"Based on the diary and memoirs of Jeannette Herman-Louwerse."
Table of contents: label: Contents
title: Historical Setting
pagenum: II; title: Preface
pagenum: V; title: Introduction
pagenum: XIII; label: Part I
title: The First Year
pagenum: 1; title: The Second Year
pagenum: 56; title: The Third Year
pagenum: 95; label: Part II
title: The Camps
pagenum: 113; title: When The War Was Over
pagenum: 155; title: Life Illustrated
pagenum: 178; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 187; title: Glossary of Words
pagenum: 189; title: List Of Japanese Camps
pagenum: 193