Books by James B. Bradley
“This was the most incredible escape story, because escaping from the railway was almost impossible. Surviving it was unheard of, and when you were caught, it was routine for all escapees to be executed. There was impenetrable jungle on all sides and the locals were offered a good sum of money to report anyone who did escape.” Read more...
The best books on The Burma Railway
Jacqueline Passman, Teacher
Interviews where books by James B. Bradley were recommended
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Towards the Setting Sun: An Escape from the Thailand-Burma Railway
by James B. Bradley -
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Down to Bedrock: The Diary and Secret Notes of a Far East Prisoner of War Chaplain 1942-1945
by Eric Cordingly -
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To the Kwai and Back: War Drawings 1939-1945
by Ronald Searle -
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Burma Railway Medicine: Disease, Death and Survival on the Thai-Burma Railway
by Geoff Gill & Meg Parkes -
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
The best books on The Burma Railway, recommended by Jacqueline Passman
The best books on The Burma Railway, recommended by Jacqueline Passman
Among the many horrors of World War II was the construction of the Burma–Thailand Railway, where tens of thousands of prisoners dropped dead of illness, exhaustion, and malnutrition, and once strong young men were reduced to skeletal frames of flesh. Jacqueline Passman, daughter of a British prisoner of war, talks to us about the experiences of her father, Harry Silman, a doctor with the British Army who was there and kept a diary, now published for the first time.
