Survival And Separation On The River Kwai
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Survival and Separation on the River Kwai
Author | : Ian Roberts |
Publsiher | : Pen and Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2023-07-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781399049597 |
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Eric Roberts was conscripted in 1939 into the 1/5 Sherwood Foresters. After service in France and evacuation from Brest in 1940, the Battalion were sent to the Far East arriving in Singapore three weeks before the surrender. Eric became a prisoner of the Japanese and was sent to the Burma-Thai Railway. His Commanding Officer was Lieutenant Colonel Lilly who was later to become the inspiration for Colonel Nicholson in the film Bridge on the River Kwai. Eric’s fiancée, Eunice Lowe, learnt of his capture by chance from a friend. Amidst speculation that Eric had escaped, Eunice began a campaign to learn the truth but it was not until 26 May 1943 that she received confirmation that he was a POW. From 1942 to 1945, while suffering extreme hardship and abuse from his captors, Eric was permitted to send just three postcards. Despite Eunice writing every week, only a handful were received by him in late 1944. After liberation, Eric returned home and married Eunice in 1946. Fortunately, Eric wrote a graphic memoir of his captivity in the post-war years and Eunice’s correspondence has been preserved. The two combined make for an unusual and moving record of a young couple’s testing yet very different experiences.
Survival and Separation on the River Kwai
Author | : Ian Roberts |
Publsiher | : Pen and Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2023-07-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781399049573 |
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Eric Roberts was conscripted in 1939 into the 1/5 Sherwood Foresters. After service in France and evacuation from Brest in 1940, the Battalion were sent to the Far East arriving in Singapore three weeks before the surrender. Eric became a prisoner of the Japanese and was sent to the Burma-Thai Railway. His Commanding Officer was Lieutenant Colonel Lilly who was later to become the inspiration for Colonel Nicholson in the film Bridge on the River Kwai. Eric’s fiancée, Eunice Lowe, learnt of his capture by chance from a friend. Amidst speculation that Eric had escaped, Eunice began a campaign to learn the truth but it was not until 26 May 1943 that she received confirmation that he was a POW. From 1942 to 1945, while suffering extreme hardship and abuse from his captors, Eric was permitted to send just three postcards. Despite Eunice writing every week, only a handful were received by him in late 1944. After liberation, Eric returned home and married Eunice in 1946. Fortunately, Eric wrote a graphic memoir of his captivity in the post-war years and Eunice’s correspondence has been preserved. The two combined make for an unusual and moving record of a young couple’s testing yet very different experiences.
Long Way Back to the River Kwai
Author | : Loet Velmans |
Publsiher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2011-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781611451856 |
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The astounding memoir of a World War II veteran who spent three and a half years in the slave labor camps made famous by The Bridge on the River Kwai.
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
Author | : Pierre Boulle |
Publsiher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-08-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780891419136 |
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1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one prisoner, Colonel Nicholson, a proud perfectionist. Pitted against the warden, Colonel Saito, Nicholson will nevertheless, out of a distorted sense of duty, aid his enemy. While on the outside, as the Allies race to destroy the bridge, Nicholson must decide which will be the first casualty: his patriotism or his pride.
Survivor on the River Kwai
Author | : Reg Twigg |
Publsiher | : Viking |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Prisoners of war |
ISBN | : 024196511X |
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A young British soldier is caught up in the worst defeat in the history of the British Army, the fall of Singapore. Reg Twigg spends the next three years in hell, building the Burma Railway for the Japanese. Beaten, tortured, starving and forced to watch his comrades die, Reg fights for his survival.
Return from the River Kwai
Author | : Joan Blair,Clay Blair |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Prisoners of war |
ISBN | : 0140122370 |
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Death Camps of the River Kwai
Author | : Thomas Pounder |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : WISC:89002265957 |
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The Bridge Over the River Kwai
Author | : Pierre Boulle |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:602447204 |
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