The railway man
2014
Book
Late in life, Lomax learned how to believe in the possibility of hope. By a miracle of coincidence he discovered that his Japanese interrogator was alive, and found out where he was. This unforgettable book describes a life saved from final bitterness by an extraordinary will to remember and forgive.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780099597551
- 9780099583844
- 0099597551
- 0099583844
Description: x, 322 pages : map ; 20 cm
Notes:
- First published in Great Britain in 1995 by Jonathan Cape.
- Film tie-in.
Control Number: 993211
Publisher: London : Vintage, [2014]Subjects:
- Burma-Siam Railroad -- History.
- Lomax, Eric.
- Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- Biography.
- Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Biography.
- Prisoners of war -- Singapore -- Biography.
- Prisoners of war -- Thailand -- Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Burma.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Thailand.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Scottish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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