Laura Noszlopy Author

John Alan Coast (1916-1989) was an extraordinary man. An art-lover, impresario and adventurer, he was also an accomplished writer and memoirist who wrote detailed and vivid accounts of how his life tangled with world events. Originally published in 1952, Recruit to Revolution was his second book.

Laura Noszlopy is an anthropologist, author, editor and Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London. Besides her research on Indonesia, she is working on the biography of John Coast and recently helped prepare a new edition of his first memoir, Railroad of Death.

Adrian Vickers is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and Director of the Asian Studies Program at the University of Sydney. He is author of many works on Indonesian social and cultural history.