Author: BEETS, NICOLAAS (PSEUD. L.A. KOELEWIJN),
Title: Niet meer aan denken. Burma-Thailand 1943; Twee verhalen. [Eerste druk; First edition, thus].
Description: Baarn, Hollandia, 1980. Original coloured stiff wrappers with covertitle, designed by Hans Sturris. 107pp. Sketch-map of the Burma-Thailand Railroad, concise biogr. note to author with portrait on lower outer cover. Dutch language recollections by author of his stay as a P.O.W. and interpreter on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railroad during the Second Worldwar in Southeast Asia, which includes extensive remarks on the psychological effects of long-term imprisonment and hard labour under extreme circumstances. Previously published under author's pseudonym L.A. Koelewijn, De ene dag en de andere and Niet meer aan denken, 1958 & 1959. Paperback edition, as orig. publ. Very fine copy.

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