What? A colonial power? Brutal? The hell you say. ;^) A couple of books (one was titled "Nathaniel's Nutmeg") came out around the same time, possibly the same year, two different researchers/writers.
“Nathaniel’s Nutmeg”
Bought it last month at the used bookstore. I’ll start it as soon as I finish the one I am reading now, Beyond the Call by Lee Trimble. The story is about his father’s covert mission to rescue American POWs left behind in Eastern European countries after Nazi camps were liberated by the Soviets, who rendered no assistance and left them to die as they pushed on to Berlin.