Books by Leo van Bergen

This study examines the Dutch East Indies Red Cross. The author analyzes concepts of neutrality and humanitarianism in a colonial context, the organization's political and military roles, how it functioned as an instrument of colonization, and its role during wartime and decolonization in the Dutch East Indies.

Despite the numerous vicious conflicts that scared the twentieth century, the horrors of the Western Front continue to exercise a particularly strong hold on the modern imagination. Examining experiences of the Western front, this book looks at the life of a soldier, from the moment he marched to battle, until he was buried.