Author: CROO, M.H. DU & H.J. SCHMIDT,
Title: Generaal Swart: Pacificator van Atjeh. Introd. by G.K. Dijkstra.[Eerste druk/first edition].
Description: Maastricht, Leiter-Nypels, [circa], 1943. Small 4°, original clothbacked printed boards, coloured illustration front cover. (xii), 177pp., frontispiece, (portrait of General Swart), many black/white illustrations, incl. portraits of both dutch and acehnese heroes on 12 captioned plates, full-page sketch-map of Aceh province, full-page terrain map, career chronology, list of decorations awarded, list of expeditions participated, list of literature consulted, table of contents. The life and times of General Swart, participation in the Aceh-war, period 1890-1900, 1905-1908; the final phase of the Aceh war, patrols and patrolling, the very beginning of Pax Neerlandica in Aceh, local uprisings, civil administration, renewed resistance 1913-1918, change from military to civil administration and further pacification, resignation and civil career. Good copy.

Keywords: biography career militaria general swart atjeh aceh expedition war militaria administration civil service pax neerlandica pacification history sumatra van heutsz coloijn