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Survivor on the River Kwai: The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway
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- Genre
- Second World War
- ISBN
- 9780670922772
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Survivor on the River Kwai: the Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway
- Item Height
- 240mm
- Publisher
- Penguin Books LTD
- Topic
- Memorials, Government, History
- Item Width
- 162mm
- Item Weight
- 641g
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Survivor on the River Kwai is the heartbreaking story of Reg Twigg, one of the last men standing from a forgotten war. Called up in 1940, Reg expected to be fighting Germans. Instead, he found himself caught up in the worst military defeat in modern British history - the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. What followed were three years of hell, moving from one camp to another along the Kwai river, building the infamous Burma railway for the all-conquering Japanese Imperial Army. Some prisoners coped with the endless brutality of the code of Bushido by turning to God; others clung to whatever was left of the regimental structure. Reg made the deadly jungle, with its malaria, cholera, swollen rivers, lethal snakes and exhausting heat, work for him. With an ingenuity that is astonishing, he trapped and ate lizards, harvested pumpkins from the canteen rubbish heap and with his homemade razor became camp barber. That Reg survived is testimony to his own courage and determination, his will to beat the alien brutality of camp guards who had nothing but contempt for him and his fellow POWs. He was a risk taker whose survival strategies sometimes bordered on genius. Reg's story is unique. Reg Twigg was born at Wigston (Leicester) barracks on 16 December 1913. He was called up to the Leicestershire Regiment in 1940 but instead of fighting Hitler he was sent to the Far East, stationed at Singapore. When captured by the Japanese, he decided he would do everything to survive. After his repatriation from the Far East, Reg returned to Leicester. With his family he returned to Thailand in 2006, and revisited the sites of the POW camps. Reg died in 2013, at the age of ninety-nine, two weeks before the publication of this book.
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Penguin Books LTD
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9780670922772
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Book Title
Survivor on the River Kwai: the Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Memorials, Government, History
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
336 Pages
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240mm
Item Width
162mm
Item Weight
641g
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United Kingdom
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