The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness (Movie Tie-in Editions)

The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness (Movie Tie-in Editions)

by Eric Lomax
The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness (Movie Tie-in Editions)

The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness (Movie Tie-in Editions)

by Eric Lomax

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Overview

Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize

The Railway Man is a remarkable memoir of forgiveness—a tremendous testament to the courage that propels one toward remembrance, and finally, peace with the past.

Eric Lomax, sent to Malaya in World War II, was taken prisoner by the Japanese and put to punishing work on the notorious Burma-Siam railway. After the radio he illicitly helped to build in order to follow war news was discovered, he was subjected to two years of starvation and torture. He would never forget the interpreter at these brutal sessions. Fifty years after returning home from the war, marrying, and gaining the strength from his wife Patti to fight his demons, he learned the interpreter was alive. Through letters and meeting with his former torturer, Lomax bravely moved beyond bitterness drawing on an extraordinary will to extend forgiveness.

Now a major motion picture starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393350661
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 04/02/2014
Series: Movie Tie-in Editions
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 566,531
File size: 877 KB

About the Author

Eric Lomax was born in 1919 and volunteered for the Royal Corps of Signals in 1939. He died in England in 2012 at the age of 93.
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