Author: VEER, P. VAN T,
Title: De Atjeh-oorlog. [Eerste druk/first edition].
Description: Amsterdam, De Arbeiderspers, 1969. Stout 8°., original cloth, gilded title on front cover and spine, dustjacket. 320pp. Black/white illustrations of which full-page portraits on 8 captioned plates, extensive foot-, and supplementary notes, register of personal names, endpaper maps featuring the War-theatre, table of contents. Dutch language political-military study of the Aceh-war, 1870-1942. This war is by far the biggest the dutch ever conducted, it might be compared in length with the so-called eithty-years war of independence against Spain; this one however fetched over 100.000 casualties, and was much more than an ordinary armed dispute between the dutch and Acehnese, causing controversy between [dutch colonial] politicians and generals, diplomatic ruptures between Dutch and British Govenment, economic problems with the Straits Settlements Singapore and Penang, moral outrage of the way the war was cunducted, mass-killing of [Acehnese] civillians. A still unsurpassed modern study. Very good copy, WITH dustjacket. (dustjacket frayed at rims, especially at spine-ends, some tears skilfully restored with acidfree clearview tape).

Keywords: war militaria history politics morals diplomacy atjeh aceh atjih history islam colonialism indonesia southeast asia