Bridge Over The River Kwai

Author : Pierre Boulle
Publisher : Ishi Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 4871876489

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Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle Pdf

The magnificent story of Colonel Nicholson, who built the perfect bridge - for the enemy. On its publication in France, this brilliant novel was awarded the Prix Ste. Beuve. Since its appearance in the USA and its presentation as a film, this compelling story has been awarded a succession of prizes in both the fields of entertainment and literature. This is a historical novel. It is based in part on factual events. It was made into the greatest movie ever made. Although hard to believe, the book is based on actual real historical events, except that vastly more people died building the real bridge and the railroad to the bridge than are shown in the movie. The book and movie have slightly different names. The book is "The Bridge Over the River Kwai." The movie is "The Bridge On the River Kwai." In Thailand, they call it the River Kwae.

Author : Pierre Boulle
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780891419136

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The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle Pdf

1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one prisoner, Colonel Nicholson, a proud perfectionist. Pitted against the warden, Colonel Saito, Nicholson will nevertheless, out of a distorted sense of duty, aid his enemy. While on the outside, as the Allies race to destroy the bridge, Nicholson must decide which will be the first casualty: his patriotism or his pride.

Author : Pierre Boulle
Publisher : Random House
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446484678

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The Bridge On The River Kwai by Pierre Boulle Pdf

The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer; Commander Shears, who escaped from hell but was sent back. Ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge, the Colonel refuses, as it is against regulations for officers to work with other ranks. The Japanese give way but, to prove a point of British superiority, construction of the bridge goes ahead - at great cost to the men under Nicholson's command.

Author : PIERRE BOULLE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI by PIERRE BOULLE Pdf

Author : Reg Twigg
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241965108

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Survivor on the River Kwai by Reg Twigg Pdf

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 prisoners coped with the endless brutality of the code of Bushido by turning to God; others clung to whatever was left of the regimental structure. Reg made the deadly jungle, with its malaria, cholera, swollen rivers, lethal snakes and exhausting heat, work for him. With an ingenuity that is astonishing, he trapped and ate lizards, harvested pumpkins from the canteen rubbish heap and with his homemade razor became camp barber. That Reg survived is testimony to his own courage and determination, his will to beat the alien brutality of camp guards who had nothing but contempt for him and his fellow POWs. He was a risk taker whose survival strategies sometimes bordered on genius. Reg's story is unique. Reg Twigg was born at Wigston (Leicester) barracks on 16 December 1913. He was called up to the Leicestershire Regiment in 1940 but instead of fighting Hitler he was sent to the Far East, stationed at Singapore. When captured by the Japanese, he decided he would do everything to survive. After his repatriation from the Far East, Reg returned to Leicester. With his family he returned to Thailand in 2006, and revisited the sites of the POW camps. Reg died in 2013, at the age of ninety-nine, two weeks before the publication of this book.

Author : Julie Summers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471152948

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The Colonel of Tamarkan by Julie Summers Pdf

Alec Guinness won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the dogmatic but brittle commanding officer in David Lean's film "The Bridge on the River Kwai". While a brilliant performance, it owed more to fiction than fact, as the man who actually commanded the POWs ordered to build the infamous bridges -- there were in fact two: one wooden, one concrete -- was cut from very different cloth. Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey was the senior officer among the 2,000-odd Allied servicemen incarcerated in Tamarkan prison camp, and as such had to comply with the Japanese orders to help construct their Thailand-Burma railway. With malnutrition, disease and brutality their constant companions, it was a near-impossible task for soldiers who had already endured terrible privations -- and one which they knew would be in the service of their enemy. But under Toosey's careful direction, a subtle balancing act between compliance and subversion, the Allied inmates not only survived but regained some sense of self-respect. Re-creating the story of this remarkable leader with tremendous skill and narrative flair, and drawing on many original interviews with Second World War POWs from the Asian theatre, THE COLONEL OF TAMARKAN is a riveting blend of biography and history.

Author : Peter Davies
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780939629

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The Man Behind the Bridge by Peter Davies Pdf

Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey was the senior British officer concerned with the building of the notorious "Bridge over the River Kwai". Toosey understood from the very beginning that the only real issue was how to ensure that as many of his men as possible should survive their captivity. Many thousands who knew how Toosey stood up to their oppressors at great personal risk were incensed by Alec Guinness's brilliant portrayal of 'Colonel Nicholson' in the film version of Boulle's book. This book provides an accurate historical account of the terrible events during which more than 16,000 PoWs died while building the Thai-Burma railway, of which "the bridge" formed an essential part. A memorial to Toosey, this book is also a definitive history of the building of the railway in the context of the Far Eastern theatre of World War II. First published in 1991, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

Author : Loet Velmans
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611451856

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Long Way Back to the River Kwai by Loet Velmans Pdf

The astounding memoir of a World War II veteran who spent three and a half years in the slave labor camps made famous by The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Author : Pierre Boulle
Publisher : New York : Vanguard Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UCAL:B3120904

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My Own River Kwai by Pierre Boulle Pdf

Author's true adventures during World War II, which inspired his novel "The bridge over the River Kwai."

Author : PIERRE BOULLE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI by PIERRE BOULLE Pdf

Author : Joan Blair,Clay Blair
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Prisoners of war
ISBN : UOM:39015011360164

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Return from the River Kwai by Joan Blair,Clay Blair Pdf

Drawing from their interviews with the few survivors, the Blairs tell of the Allied prisoners of war who were aboard two Japanese ships sunk by American submarines.

Author : Pierre Boulle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:602447204

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The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle Pdf

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593470954

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder Pdf

This Pulitzer Prize-winning, fable-like short novel—by the author of Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—has been beloved around the world for nearly a century. This splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." A traveling monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the catastrophe and becomes obsessed with investigating the lives of the five victims in order to prove that their deaths had meaning. His mission is doomed to fail, but over the course of the story, the five unlucky individuals—a noblewoman, a maid, an orphan, an old man, and a child—come to life for the reader in all of their glorious complexity. Their intertwined lives—snuffed out in one shattering moment—illuminate the biggest questions that we can ask ourselves about the nature of love and meaning of the human condition.

Author : Ernest Gordon
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780310340645

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To End All Wars by Ernest Gordon Pdf

Now a major motion picture starring Robert Carlyle and Kiefer Sutherland "Waking from a dream, I suddenly realized where I was: in the Death House--in a prison camp by the River Kwai. I was a prisoner of war, lying among the dead, waiting for the bodies to be carried away so that I might have more room." When Ernest Gordon was twenty-four he was captured by the Japanese and forced, with other British prisoners, to build the notorious "Railroad of Death," where nearly 16,000 prisoners of war gave their life. Faced with the appalling conditions of the prisoners' camp and the brutality of the captors, he survived to become an inspiring example of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds. To End All Wars is Ernest Gordon's gripping true story behind both the Academy Award-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai, starring Alec Guinness, and the new film To End All Wars, directed by David Cunningham.

Author : H. Robert Charles
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Burma-Siam Railway
ISBN : 076032820X

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Last Man Out by H. Robert Charles Pdf

From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai." One of the few who survived was American Marine H. Robert Charles, who describes the ordeal in vivid and harrowing detail in Last Man Out. The story mixes the unimaginable brutality of the camps with the inspiring courage of the men, including a Dutch Colonial Army doctor whose skill and knowledge of the medicinal value of wild jungle herbs saved the lives of hundreds of his fellow POWs, including the author.