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VENNER, D., Westerling. Guérilla story. Orig.french edn.
Paris, 1977 orig.limp pict.col. wraps. 319pp. Foot-notes, chronology of events, bibliogr. ["Les Grands Aventuriers"]series.
Biography of the famous Raymond Paul Peter Westerling (1919-1987), nicknamed "Turk" (after his turkish descent by his mother's side), for the greater part dealing with his service and actions in post-colonial Indonesia, during the dutch-indonesian dispute 1945-1950, as commander of a special counter-guerilla task-force "Korps Speciale Troepen", K.S.T., esp. on Sulawesi, and his, failed, attempt of a coup at the end of the dispute. His methods caused much uproar both in the Netherlands and Overseas.

See also our catalogue:
- GEMILANG 126: MERDEKA! The Dutch-Indonesian Dispute 1945-1950 (2013).
EUR 55.00

Book nr.: 38370