Last Man Out: Surviving the Burma-Thailand Death Railway

Last Man Out: Surviving the Burma-Thailand Death Railway
ISBN-10
076032820X
ISBN-13
9780760328200
Series
Last Man Out
Category
Burma-Siam Railway
Pages
250
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Motorbooks
Author
H. Robert Charles

Description

From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai." One of the few who survived was American Marine H. Robert Charles, who describes the ordeal in vivid and harrowing detail in Last Man Out. The story mixes the unimaginable brutality of the camps with the inspiring courage of the men, including a Dutch Colonial Army doctor whose skill and knowledge of the medicinal value of wild jungle herbs saved the lives of hundreds of his fellow POWs, including the author.

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