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Made famous by the film The Bridge over the River Kwai, the Thai-Burma railway that once resulted in the death of thousands could help unite Southeast Asia by 2015. Made famous by the film The Bridge ...

Speaking shortly afterwards, Alfonso's son-in-law said that "they were known as the forgotten army - well, today, they're not ...

He was captured by the Japanese in Singapore and was one of thousands of prisoners whose hardships were the basis for the film “The Bridge on the River Kwai.” By Richard Sandomir Jack Jennings, a ...

Flanagan based much of the book on his father’s experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese, forced to work as a slave labourer building the Burma railway, and his experiences are rendered in ...

Richard Flanagan’s book The Narrow Road to the Deep North isn’t a light read. Published in 2013, it won the Booker Prize for its depiction of its hero, Dorrigo Evans’, struggles in Burma during the ...

Even as a young man, Jack Jennings was something of an expert on wood. He knew his oak from his ash, and his elm from his beech. Since leaving school at 14 he had worked with wood, first on the ...