Shadow of the Sun: New Book Shares Dutch Missionary's Harrowing Story as a POW During World War II

Imagine taking your wife and children to a foreign country to run a school and serve the locals and instead, getting separated from your family, drafted into your country’s army and then interned in a prisoner of war camp. That’s the story of Shadow of the Sun, a historical novel based on the life story of Menno Giliam – a school headmaster conscripted into the Dutch army to fight the invading Japanese in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) during World War II.