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Its purposes, planning, construction and ultimate contribution to Japan's overall strategy are assessed from the perspective not only of the Japanese soldiers and the Allied prisoners, but also of the Burmese and Indian labourers whose plight has less frequently been considered.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49513886155025,"sku":"GOR002935157","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49527942840593,"sku":"GOR002667699","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49563360854289,"sku":"GOR002198222","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50302109384977,"sku":"CIN0080373445VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51326033264913,"sku":"CIN0080373445G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0080373445.jpg?v=1751388782"},{"product_id":"river-kwai-railway-book-clifford-kinvig-9781857532050","title":"RIVER KWAI RAILWAY","description":"Uses Japanese material together with the accounts and illustrations of the prisoners themselves to tell the story of the Burma-Siam railway. 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It is known less for its physical characteristics than for its association with the monumental struggle that took place along its eastern bank in 1942 and 1943 as a third of a million men strove to build a railway linking Thailand to Burma. What gave this railroad its gruesome notoriety was not its uniqueness as an engineering achievement, remarkable feat though it was, but the ruthless determination of its architects to have it completed on time, however daunting the task in the inhospitable climate and topography of the region, and regardless of the cost in human life. The conditions have been well-documented in POW accounts. However, when it was first published 10 years ago, Clifford Kinvig's book was the first to present a fully comprehensive evaluation of the railway episode in its strategic, logistic and manpower contexts. Now re-released as a B-format paperback, Kinvig's commendable examination of the River Kwai Railway uses Japanese records, together with prisoners' accounts, to explain the progress of this formidable enterprise. He examines it not only from the viewpoint of the Japanese soldiers and POWs, but also from the perspective of the huge number of labourers recruited in Burma and Malaya, a mainly illiterate force who were unable to produce any coherent record of their experiences, and whose plight has been largely overlooked.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49565091037457,"sku":"GOR012248605","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49616013951249,"sku":"GOR002427210","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49640019558673,"sku":"GOR001698244","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1844860213.jpg?v=1750996154"},{"product_id":"death-railway-book-clifford-kinvig-9780345097798","title":"Death Railway","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49595629437201,"sku":"GOR002869423","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49648401776913,"sku":"GOR005206176","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50349535559953,"sku":"CIN0345097793VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52108555354385,"sku":"GOR006912141","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0345097793.jpg?v=1751356889"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-clifford-kinvig.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}