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The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness Book

Eric Lomax, a British army soldier, was captured by the Japanese during the Singapore campaign of 1942. A railroad buff since a child, he took strange pleasure in his work as a POW on the Burma-Siam Railroad, which was later the subject of the film Bridge Over the River Kwai. When his captors discovered his detailed drawings of the railway, he was suspected as a spy and tortured for years. Fifty years later he discovered that the interpreter during his tortures was still alive. The two arranged a meeting and Lomax forgave him. Here is the exciting, moving and truthful account.Read More

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    A World War II veteran recalls his capture by the Japanese, the torture he endured, his work on the infamous Burma-Siam railroad--a project that claimed the lives of 250,000 men--and, fifty years later, his reconciliation with Nagase Takashi, his Japanese tormentor. Reprint.

  • 0393334988
  • 9780393334982
  • Eric Lomax
  • 30 September 1995
  • W. W. Norton & Company
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 292
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