The True story of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai.
The True story of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai.
The True story of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai.
The True story of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai.
The True story of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai.
The True story of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai.
The True story of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai.

The True story of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai.

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The True story of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai.

Softback very good condition, no inscriptions, slight fading to spine. Stapled booklet. 60 pages, illustrated.

The Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, the Burma Siam Railway, the Thailand Burma Railway and similar names, was a 415-kilometre (258 mi) railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat, Burma, built by the Empire of Japan in 1943 to support its forces in the Burma campaign of World War II. This railway completed the railroad link between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon). The line was closed in 1947, but the section between Nong Pla Duk and Nam Tok was reopened ten years later in 1957. Forced labour was used in its construction. More than 180,000 possibly many more Asian civilian labourers (Romusha) and 60,000 Allied prisoners of war (POWs) worked on the railway. Of these, estimates of Romusha deaths are little more than guesses, but probably about 90,000 died. 12,621 Allied POWs died during the construction. The dead POWs included 6,904 British personnel, 2,802 Australians, 2,782 Dutch, and 133 Americans. After the end of World War II, 111 Japanese military officials were tried for war crimes because of their brutalization of POWs during the construction of the railway, with 32 of these sentenced to death. The construction of the railway has been the subject of a novel and an award-winning film, The Bridge on the River Kwai; a novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan; plus a large number of personal accounts of POW experiences. More recently, the motion picture The Railway Man (based on the novel of the same name) also gives insight into the barbaric conditions and suffering that were inflicted upon the workers who built the railway.

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The True story of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai.
The True story of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai.
The True story of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai.
The True story of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai.
The True story of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai.
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