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The Railway Man
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Author : Eric Lomax
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2012
The Railway Man written by Eric Lomax and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Prisoners of war categories.
A POW's account of war, brutality and forgiveness. Lomax was sent to Malaya in 1941, taken prisoner after the fall of Singapore, and put to work on the infamous Burma-Siam railway, which cost the lives of 250,000 men.
The Railway Man
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Author : Eric Lomax
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-12-23
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The Railway Man A Pow S Searing Account Of War Brutality And Forgiveness Movie Tie In Editions
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Author : Eric Lomax
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 2014-04-11
The Railway Man A Pow S Searing Account Of War Brutality And Forgiveness Movie Tie In Editions written by Eric Lomax and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Railway Man A Pow S Searing Account Of War Brutality And Forgiveness
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Author : Eric Lomax
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2008-06-01
Railway Man A Pow S Searing Account Of War Brutality And Forgiveness written by Eric Lomax and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Here is a remarkable true story of forgiveness--a tremendous testament to the courage that propels one toward remembrance, and finally, peace with the past. A classic war autobiography, The Railway Man is a powerful tale of survival and of the human capacity to understand even those who have done us unthinkable harm. From The Railway Man: The passion for trains and railroads is, I have been told, incurable. I have also learned that there is no cure for torture. These two afflictions have been intimately linked in the course of my life, and yet through some chance combination of luck and grace I have survived them both. I was born in Edinburgh, in the lowlands of Scotland, in 1919. My father was an official in the General Post Office there, a career which he had started as a boy of 16 and which he intended me to imitate to the letter. He was fascinated by telephony and telegraphy, and I grew up in a world in which tinkering and inventing and making were honoured past-times. I vividly remember the first time that my father placed a giant set of headphones around my ears and I heard, through the hiss and buzz of far-off-energies, a disembodied human voice. In the worst times, much later, when I thought I was about to die in pain and shock at the hands of men who could not imagine anything of my life, who had no respect for who I was or my history, I might have wished that my father had had a different passion. But in the 1920s, technology was still powerful and beautiful without being menacing. Who would have thought that a radio, for example, could cause terrible harm? It seemed to be a wonderful instrument by which people could speak to each other; and yet I heard Hitler ranting over airwaves, and saw two men beaten to death for their part in making such an instrument, and suffered for my own part in it for a half a century.
The Railway Man
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Author : Eric LOMAX
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
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The Railway Man And His Children
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Author : Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
The Railway Man And His Children written by Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
Railway Man
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Author : Mitchell Deaver
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2013-01-16
Railway Man written by Mitchell Deaver and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-16 with Transportation categories.
Railway Man begins with author Mitchell Deaver paying a nostalgic visit to Bickle signal box, base of boyhood adventures described in his first book Railway Boy. Shortly after, he leaves rural Yorkshire for life in the big cities. It is 1968. Railway Man describes the emotionally devastating draw-down of steam traction on British Railways. Three steam sheds remain: Carnforth, Lostock Hall and Rose Grove. The end comes when the last steam train runs on 11th August. The total steam ban is unbearable. Mitchell Deaver's brainchild, the Return to Steam Committee, tries to get steam back on British Railways. In 1980 Mitchell Deaver achieves a boyhood dream and becomes a signalman on the busy North London Line. Railway Man describes the realities of operating a mechanical signal box, one that is open continuously. Life as a signalman is not without incident. A mischievous letter prompts a visit from senior management. Signal box operations degenerate into a scene from the Marx Brothers. A signalmen's night out turns into a baffling conspiracy. In this true story set in the cities of Birmingham, Liverpool and London and spanning two decades, Railway Man describes a monumental battle between, on one side, Mitchell Deaver's love of railways and, on the other, forces that try to draw him elsewhere. Which side wins?
Burma Railway Man
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Author : Charles Steel
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2013-06-12
Burma Railway Man written by Charles Steel and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-12 with History categories.
Charles Steel took part in two military disasters - the Fall of France and the Dunkirk evacuation, and the Fall of Singapore. Shortly before the latter, he married Louise. Within days of being captured by the Japanese, he began writing a weekly letter to his new bride as means of keeping in touch with her in his mind, for the Japanese forbade all writing of letters and diaries. By the time he was liberated 3 1/2 years later, he had written and hidden some 180 letters, to which were added a further 20 post-liberation letters. Part love-letter, part diary these unique letters intended for Louise's eyes only describe the horror of working as a slave on the Burma - Siam Railway and, in particular, the construction of the famous Bridge over the River Kwai. It is also an uplifting account of how man can rise above adversity and even secretly get back at his captors by means of 'creative accounting'!. Now, we can share the appalling and inspiring experiences of this remarkable man.
Railway Man
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
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The Railway Man And His Children
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Author : Margaret Oliphant
language : en
Publisher: Elibron Classics
Release Date : 2002-04
The Railway Man And His Children written by Margaret Oliphant and has been published by Elibron Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04 with categories.
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Heinemann and Balestier, 1892, Leipzig