Survivor on the River Kwai
By: by Reg Twigg
Edition: [Large print edition].
Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Long Preston, North Yorkshire, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9780750539630
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Prisoners and prisons; British Personal narratives; Large type books
Description: "Called up in 1940, Reg expected to be fighting Germans. Instead, he found himself caught up in the worst military defeat in modern British history - the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. What followed were three years of hell, moving from one camp to another along the Kwai river, building the infamous Burma railway for the all-conquering Japanese Imperial Army. Some prisoners coped with the endless brutality of the code of Bushido by turning to God; others clung to whatever was left of the regimental structure. Reg made the deadly jungle, with its malaria, cholera, swollen rivers, lethal snakes and exhausting heat, work for him. With an ingenuity that is astonishing, he trapped and ate lizards, harvested pumpkins from the canteen rubbish heap and with his homemade razor became camp barber. That Reg survived is testimony to his own courage and determination, his will to beat the alien brutality of camp guards who had nothing but contempt for him and his fellow POWs" -- Publisher description.
Notes: Standard print edition originally published: London : Viking, 2013.

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