A veteran believed to be the last surviving Allied prisoner forced to work on the infamous Burma Death Railway has died aged 104. Jack Jennings survived the brutal forced labour on the railway line, ...
Jack Jennings, a British prisoner of war during World War II who worked as a slave laborer on the Burma Railway, the roughly 250-mile Japanese military construction project that inspired a novel and ...
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 ...
Jungle war veteran Len Gibson has died aged 101 – just days before the launch of a book detailing his remarkable life. Len, from Sunderland, endured three and a half nightmare years of forced labour, ...
TOKYO: During World War II, the Japanese military constructed the Thai-Burma Railway connecting Thailand and Burma, now Myanmar. While the section in Thailand has become a tourist destination ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shortly before wrapping up filming for "The Railway Man," a World War Two drama about a former British Army officer and victim of torture, actor Colin Firth dreamt he was drawing ...
HAMILTON, Ohio — Sitting in a Dutch hospital in Java during World War II, Marvin Sizemore watched as the USS Houston sailed out of port, leaving him behind. “They got word there was a Japanese battle ...
FremantleMedia Australia is producing a drama series based on Richard Flanagan's novel that is set against the backdrop of WWII's horrific Thai-Burma Railway. By Pip Bulbeck FremantleMedia Australia ...
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