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  • Challenge to Terror

    by Raymond Westerling ...
    Raymond Pierre Paul Westerling, nicknamed the Turk, was a Dutch military officer of the KNIL (Royal Netherlands East Indies Army). He is famous for leading the massacre Westerling (1946-1947) in South Sulawesi and experiment APRA coup in Bandung , West Java . The original French version 'Mes aventures en Indonesie' has been translated here into English by Waverley root to produce 'Challenge to ... Read more

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