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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:

2014?, c1995

Description:

288 p. : map ; 21cm.

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.

Notes:

First published as a Norton paperback, 2012.

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:

9780393344073
039334407X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)873762495

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

EMPB715 -- Primghar Public Library (Primghar)