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Biography & True Stories > Historical, political & military biographies > Historical, political & military autobiographies
History > Regional & national history > Asia
The Railway Man (Paperback)
  • The Railway Man (Paperback)

The Railway Man (Paperback)

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Paperback Published: 03/01/1998
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Synopsis
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.

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099582311

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“Captivating.”

This book starts off describing, essentially, a bit of a geek. He loves railways and trams and knows no other life. Then he joins the army and his whole world explodes.

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5th November 2010
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“An extraordinary story of a WWII POW”

A harrowing and powerful true story of a young man who finds himself a prisoner of World War II. Kept in shocking conditions for several years and tortured in a horrifying and unforgivable way, fifty years later, Eric... More

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26th February 2014
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“This is a great book”

This is an astonishing and deeply moving story of life and death at the hands of the Imperial Japanese army. Don’t be put off; this is a very readable book, one that I could not put down. It’s a very human story, you... More

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