Author: BEUMING, P.H.R.
Title: Schetsen uit den Strijd op Groot-Atjeh. First edn.
Description: [Amsterdam], s.n., [..], 1911. Small 8°. orig. wrappers, title in bold black type on front wrapper, printed within a double-barred black line-border. 65pp., text-ills. after field-photos, full-p. portrait of Father H.C. Verbraak (army-chaplain), table of contents on last unnumbered lve, folded sketch- map of Greater Acehin 1874, with key printed at tail, at very end. Collection of 7 authentic stories on the Aceh wars (:) the story of the famous and highly decorated Father Verbraak, Roman-catholic Army-chaplain, th marksman of Bikoel, the beginning of the 1896 uprising, the taking of Anak Galoeng, the 3-day battle at Beradin mountain-pass, &c. A fund-raising publication, on behalf of a revalidation-centre for civil servants. (wrappers with some light signs of wrinkling, some very light dog-earing, contents good).

Keywords: aceh war sketches recollections stories father verbraak atjeh atjih war guerilla militaria sumatra colonialism indonesia southeast asia