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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
Description:: 288 p. : map ; 21cm.
Subject:: Lomax, Eric.
Burma-Siam Railroad--History.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Scottish.
World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Prisoners of war--Great Britain--Biography.
Prisoners of war--Thailand--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:: 039334407X (pbk.) : :
9780393344073 (pbk.) : :
Locations:: SHPC094 -- Denver Public Library (Denver); FMPC224 -- Guttenberg Public Library (Guttenberg); GPPC641 -- Gutekunst Public Library (State Center)

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