Author: Ian Roberts
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1399049577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
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
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1399049577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1399049577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
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
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 161145185X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 161145185X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
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.
Survivor on the River Kwai
Author: Reg Twigg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750539630
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750539630
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
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.
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
Author: Pierre Boulle
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0891419136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0891419136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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
Publisher: Viking
ISBN: 9780241965115
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Viking
ISBN: 9780241965115
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Death Camps of the River Kwai
Author: Thomas Pounder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
To the River Kwai
Author: John Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780747503866
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Written to dispel the myths behind "The Bridge on the River Kwai", this is the true account of one of the few men to survive Sonkurai, a Japanese prisoner of war camp on the Burma-Siam railway. His diaries while a Japanese prisoner are augmented by details of a recent return journey up the Kwai.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780747503866
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Written to dispel the myths behind "The Bridge on the River Kwai", this is the true account of one of the few men to survive Sonkurai, a Japanese prisoner of war camp on the Burma-Siam railway. His diaries while a Japanese prisoner are augmented by details of a recent return journey up the Kwai.
Return from the River Kwai
Author: Joan Blair
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140122374
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140122374
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
Author: Pierre Boulle
Publisher: Amereon Limited
ISBN: 9780891905714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Re-creates events surrounding the building of a Japanese supply bridge over the River Kwai by British prisoners during World War II
Publisher: Amereon Limited
ISBN: 9780891905714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Re-creates events surrounding the building of a Japanese supply bridge over the River Kwai by British prisoners during World War II