The railway man
Subtitle: a POW's searing account of war, brutality and forgiveness
By: Eric Lomax
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780393344073
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Burma-Siam Railroad; Scottish Personal narratives; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; Conscript labor; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Prisoners and prisons; Atrocities; Biography; History
Other titles: POW's searing account of war, brutality and forgiveness
Description: A POW's account of war, brutality and forgiveness. Lomax was sent to Malaya in 1941, taken prisoner after the fall of Singapore, and put to work on the infamous Burma-Siam railway, which cost the lives of 250,000 men.
Notes: Cover artwork ℗♭2014 The Weinstein Company.