1,000 Days On The River Kwai Av H. C. Owtram

Reg Twigg spends the next three years in hell, moving from jungle camp to jungle camp and building the Burma Railway for the all-conquering Japanese. He was a risk taker whose survival strategies sometimes bordered on genius.

A fine and moving example of a Japanese POW memoir.

<p><i>The Bridge on the River Kwai</i> tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest...