Survivor on the River Kwai: The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway

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 prisone...