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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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  • Product Description

    Soon to be the basis of a major film for BBC-TV, the autobiography of a World War II British prisoner of war tells of his captivity and torture by Japanese soldiers, one of whom he meets fifty years later.

  • 0393039102
  • 9780393039108
  • Eric Lomax
  • 1 September 1995
  • W W Norton & Co Inc
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 276
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