1000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant

Memoirs By Former Prisoners of War of the Japanese invariably male for inspiring reading but Colonel Cary Owtram's account of his years of captivity has a special significance. After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway he was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Chungkai, one of the largest POW camps. While his graphic yet modest account does not admit to it, many ex-prisoners testified to the mental and physical courage that Owtram showed protectin...