Author: DORREN, C.J.O.
Title: De geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Korps Mariniers van 1665-1945. Preface by H.F.J.M.A. Von Freytag Drabbe [Major General Royal Dutch Marine Corps]. Orig. edn.
Description: Den Haag, AD. M.C. Stok Zuid-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1948. 4°. orig. cloth, Royal Marine Corps gilt coat-of-arms with motto at tail Qua Patet Orbis, on front boards, title in gilt on spine, in a blank thin boards slipcase. Hftitle (verso blank). (xxi), 452pp., many ills., some full-page, incl. portraits, text=figs. and sketch-maps, of which full-page, facsim. ills. after original documents and archivalia, 4 coloured plates tipped-in, of which 3 illustrating historical uniforms, 3 extending maps with legenda, many sketches & battle-plans/situation-plans in text, music-scores, tables in text and full-page, extensive footnotes, bibliography, index, list of illustrations, table of contents. A well-documented history of the Royal Dutch Marine Corps, from her foundation in 1665 up till the end of the second world war, 1945. Including extensive parts on the former dutch colonial territories in the East- and West Indies, Africa. With extensive references to the N.E.I.: expedition to the Moluccas, the Palembang-wars, the Java-war, the Banjermasin War, etc. This review also includes the history and development of uniforms, and those marines of foreign descent: Africans, Eurasians, Indonesians, &c. Good to very good copy. (spine sunned).

Keywords: royal dutch marine corps marines militaria history mariniers zeesoldaten war expeditions qua patet orbis colonialism seaborne empire navy