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Eric Sutherland Lomax (30 May 1919 – 8 October 2012) [1] was a British Army officer who was sent to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in 1942. He is most notable for his book, The Railway Man , about his experiences before, during, and after World War II, which won the 1996 NCR Book Award and the PEN/Ackerley Prize .
Map of the Death Railway. A railway route between Burma and Thailand, crossing Three Pagodas Pass and following the valley of the Khwae Noi river in Thailand, had been surveyed by the British government of Burma as early as 1885, but the proposed course of the line – through hilly jungle terrain divided by many rivers – was considered too difficult to undertake.
The Railway Man is an autobiographical book by Eric Lomax about his experiences as a prisoner of war during World War II and being forced to help build the Thai–Burma Railway for the Japanese military. The book won the NCR Book Award and the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography.
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The Railway Man is a 2013 war film directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. It is an adaptation of the 1995 autobiography of the same name by Eric Lomax, and stars Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, and Stellan Skarsgård. [6] [7] [8] It premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2013. [9]
Takashi Nagase (永瀬 隆, Nagase Takashi, 20 February 1918 – 21 June 2011) was a Japanese military interpreter during World War II.He worked for the Kempeitai (military secret police) at the construction of the Burma Railway in Thailand, and spent most of his later life as an activist for post-war reconciliation and against Japanese militarism.
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