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The Railway Man

by Eric Lomax
Bill Paterson
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A naive young man, a railway 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 to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences. Almost 50 years after the war, however, his life was changed by the discovery that his interrogator, the Japanese interpreter, was still alive - their reconciliation is the culmination of this extraordinary story.
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Publisher: Random House Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781446469934
  • File size: 242154 KB
  • Release date: May 5, 2011
  • Duration: 08:24:29

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781446469934
  • File size: 242180 KB
  • Release date: May 5, 2011
  • Duration: 08:28:27
  • Number of parts: 10
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Biography & Autobiography History Military Nonfiction

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English

A naive young man, a railway 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 to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences. Almost 50 years after the war, however, his life was changed by the discovery that his interrogator, the Japanese interpreter, was still alive - their reconciliation is the culmination of this extraordinary story.
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Biography & Autobiography History Military Nonfiction
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