HUNTER Helen Louise

Sukarno and the Indonesian coup : the untold story / Helen-Louise Hunter. - Westport,CT : Praeger/Greenwood, 2007

This book is a detailed account of the planning for the coup in Indonesia that took place on 30 September 1965. It establishes the central role of the PKI (Indonesian Communist Party) in the planning and the complete surprise with which it was carried out; despite prior warning the Army appears to have been seriously unprepared, and as a result lost six generals in one night. The coup was the prelude to large scale unrest in Indonesia in which possibly a quarter of a million people died.

0275974383 (hbk) : 75.10 USD


INDONESIA--HISTORY
INDONESIA--COUP 1965