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Arnold Jansen op de Haar
Holland Park Press
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Fiction
King of Tuzla by Arnold Jansen op de Haar
All of a sudden Tijmen Klein Gildekamp, a young army captain, finds himself in a real
war. He is part of the UN, based in Bosnia in the former Yugoslavia, the scene of the
most recent war in Europe; quite a shocking, but exciting, experience, even if you are
trained for it.
This book is not so much about military battles as about experiencing how war affects
ordinary people, both soldiers and civilians.
Interspersed with Tijmen’s story about finding his own identity within a strict
military environment, we are shown vivid snippets of life in the war zone.
For example, civil servant Galib Prolaz, a self proclaimed Yugoslavian citizen who, after the Muslims were driven away, had no alternative but to become a farmer. 'The beautiful Lucia Mezga, who behind the bar of ‘Holland House’, dreams that
officers are queuing up to marry her.’
King of Tuzla, ISBN: 978-1-907320-06-4, pages 210, £12.99 - €15.00 - $20.80, published by Holland Park Press, more information plus excerpts are available from
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