num_pages: 240
description: A World War II memoir of the author's experience as a prisoner of war in Indonesia describes the more than three years during which he and fellow soldiers were forced by the Japanese to build a railroad through the Burma-Thailand jungle under life-threatening conditions. Reprint.
language: English
title: Long Way Back to the River Kwai: Memories of World War II
titlecomplete: Long Way Back to the River Kwai: Memories of World War II
genres: Biography, War, Asia, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Holocaust, Military Fiction, History, World War II
ratings_count: 421
publisher: Arcade Publishing