TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lomax,Eric
TI  - The railway man
SN  - 9780099583844
U1  - 940.5472595 23
PY  - 2014///, c1995
CY  - London, U.K.
PB  - Vintage
KW  - Lomax, Eric.
KW  - Burma-Siam Railroad
KW  - History
KW  - Prisoners of war
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Singapore
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
KW  - Personal narratives, British
KW  - Conscript labor
KW  - Burma
KW  - Thailand
N1  - First published in Great Britain in 1995 by Jonathan Cape; Film tie-in
N2  - During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife, Patti Lomax, and of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he came terms with what happened. Fifty years after the terrible events, he was able to meet one of his tormentors. The Railway Man is a story of innocence betrayed, and of survival and courage in the face of horror
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