In 1954 the French writer Pierre Boulle published a novel, The
Bridge over the River Kwai, which was later made into a tremendously
successful film, The Bridge on the River Kwai. These were fictionalized
accounts of the horrors endured by Allied prisoners of war who were
enslavedto build a bridge for a Japanese railway running through the
jungles of Burma and Thailand. In the climax of the novel, a commando
team attempts, unsuccessfully, to blow up the bridge. In the film the
team succeeds. This, of course, was purely imaginary.
However, the story was set in a real milieu. Allied POWs did build
such a railway partly along the River Kwae Noi (Kwai), under
horrifying conditions, with enormous loss of life. There were many
bridges along the road, but none was ever destroyed by a commando
team. One of these POW-built bridges, a modern eleven-span steel and
concrete structure at Tamarkan, Thailand (adjacent to Kanchanaburi),
has now become a popular tourist attraction and is called the Bridge over
the River Kwai. Nearby is a huge cemetery where thousands of POWs
who died on the railway are buried.
This book is nonfiction, a factual account of what happened to
2,218 Australian and British POWs---and a lone American--who
survived the railway. They returned from the River Kwai to face an
even more terrifying experience!
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