Doctor Bob

The story of a boy named Lodewyk van Mierop, born in Java from Dutch parents, fascinated by nature and science from an early age. During the Pacific War, after nearly all of Southeast Asia, had been overrun by the Japanese, all western nationals were interned. Men and boys over 17 years were kept in camps separate from those housing women, children and old men. The initial strong conviction among the camp inmates was that the Allied armed forces would defeat the Japanese in a few months and...