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Author:
Lomax, Eric.
Title:
The railway man : a POW's searing account of war, brutality and forgiveness / Eric Lomax.
Publisher:
W.W. Norton,
Copyright Date:
2012, ©1995
Description:
288 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Lomax, Eric.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Scottish.
Burma-Siam Railroad--History.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
Prisoners of war--Thailand--Biography.
Prisoners of war--Great Britain--Biography.
Summary:
A POW's account of war, brutality and forgiveness. Lomax was sent to Malaya in 1941, taken prisoner after the fall of Singapore, and put to work on the infamous Burma-Siam railway, which cost the lives of 250,000 men.
ISBN:
039334407X
9780393344073
Locations:
CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

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