The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
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. This was the most disastrous engineering project in history, which killed 250,000 Allied prisoners and Thai labourers. Lomax helped to build a radio so that he and his comrades could follow news of the war. The Japanese discovered the radio and Lomax was exhaustively and 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 50 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.
Lomax, Eric: - Eric Lomax was born in 1919 and volunteered for the Royal Corps of Signals in 1939. He died in England in 2012 at the age of 93.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224041874 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224041878 |
| Title | The Railway Man |
| Author | Eric Lomax |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1995-08-10 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of NCR Book Award 1996, Winner of Joe Ackerley Prize 1996, Winner of AT & T Non-Fiction Award 1996, Winner of J.R. Ackerley Prize 1996, Winner of Esquire/Apple/Waterstone Non-Fiction Award 1995, Short-listed for McVities Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year 1995 |
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