{"product_id":"camp-life-is-paradise-for-fred-lanzing-9780896803084","title":"Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy: A Childhood in the Dutch East Indies, 1933-1946","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember,\" David Lowenthal wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe Past Is a Foreign Country.\u003c\/i\u003e It is on this fraught foundation that Fred Lanzing builds this memoir of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp for Dutch colonialists in the East Indies during the World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen published in the Netherlands in 2007, the book triggered controversy, if not vitriol, for Lanzing's assertion that his time in the camp was not the compendium of horrors commonly associated with the Dutch internment experience. Despite the angry reception, Lanzing's account corresponds more closely with the scant historical record than do most camp memoirs. In this way, Lanzing's work is a substantial addition to ongoing discussions of the politics of memory and the powerful-if contentious-contributions that subjective accounts make to historiography and to the legacies of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanzing relates an aspect of the war in the Pacific seldom discussed outside the Netherlands and, by focusing on the experiences of ordinary people, expands our understanding of World War II in general. His compact, beautifully detailed account will be accessible to undergraduate students and a general readership and, together with the introduction by William H. Frederick, is a significant contribution to literature on World War II, the Dutch colonial experience, the history of childhood, and Southeast Asian history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fred Lanzing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0896803082\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780896803084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"Fred Lanzing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120431362303,"sku":"9780896803084","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bb7d018c-bdd4-4214-9709-2ea90d8888df.jpg?v=1687414273","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/camp-life-is-paradise-for-fred-lanzing-9780896803084","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}