All Ships Follow Me

An epic memoir of one family’s experiences on both sides of WWII that questions what we know about the conflict while tracing the effects of war. In March 1942, Mieke Eerkens’ father was a ten-year-old boy living in the Dutch East Indies. When the Japanese invaded the island, he, his family, and one hundred thousand other Dutch civilians were interned in a concentration camp and forced into hard labor for three years. After the Japanese surrendered, Mieke’s father and his family were set free in