The railway man
By: Eric Lomax
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781444819854
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Conscript labor; World War, 1939-1945; Large type books; Scottish Personal narratives; Biography; Japanese Prisoners and prisons
Description: "During the Second World War, Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway, and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred, and unable to form relationships, Lomax suffered for years - until, with the help of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he came to terms with what had happened. Almost 50 years after the war his life was changed by the discovery that his interrogator, the Japanese interpreter, was still alive; their reconciliation is the culmination of this extraordinary story."--Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: New York: W.W. Norton, 1995.