The railway man : a POW's searing account of war, brutality and forgiveness
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Norwood Public Library - NONFICTION | 940.54 LOMAX | In Transit |
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Burma-Siam Railroad -- History.
Lomax, Eric.
Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- Thailand -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Scottish.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Lomax, Eric.
Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- Thailand -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Scottish.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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276 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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English
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A naive young man, a radio enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the Railway of Death -- the Japanese line from Thailand and Burma. The most disastrous engineering project in history, it killed 250,000 Allied prisoners and Thai laborers. Lomax helped to build a radio so that he and his comrades could follow news of the war. The radio was discovered and he was brutally tortured. One of his tormentors was a young Japanese interpreter; Lomax never forgot him. Despite an outwardly successful life, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences and could never share them with anyone. Almost fifty years after the war, his life was changed by the discovery that his interrogator, the Japanese interpreter, was still alive. This is the story of a tragic life and a transformed old age.
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Winner of the 1996 NCR Book Award
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lomax, E. (1995). The railway man: a POW's searing account of war, brutality and forgiveness . W.W. Norton.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lomax, Eric. 1995. The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness. W.W. Norton.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lomax, Eric. The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness W.W. Norton, 1995.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lomax, Eric. The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness W.W. Norton, 1995.
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