Author: HILLEN, E[RNEST, 1935-....],
Title: The Way of a Boy. A Memoir of Java. First UK edn.
Description: London, Viking/Penguin, 1994. Small 8°. Orig. cloth, title in gilt on spine, dustjacket. 200pp. Ills., mainly family portraits on 6 photo-plates with captions, incl. some facsims. of personal documents, table of contents, epilogue by author. ADDED: An original letter, typed by author, signed in ink and dated November 1, 1994, directed to a friend, Ms. Carla [Grader], A-4 sized, triple folded, tog. 20 lines, with letter-head in colour of Saturday night magazine, of which author was/is associate editor. AND: a one-collumn press-clipping being a review of the book and a full-page illustrated interview with author, both published by a dutch national daily 'NRC/Handelsblad', 1994, loosely inserted. Author's memoir of life and experiences as a boy, living on a tea-estate, Java, in various japanese concentration camps for women and children on Java (:) Tjihapit, Upper Tjihapit, Kampong Makassar. A very fine copy, WITH dustjacket. Rare.

Keywords: memoir recollections ernest hillen history pacific war java japanese camps internment tjihapit kampong makassar occupation colonialism indonesia southeast asia buur