The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946

Download or read book The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946 written by Paul Kratoska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 2176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The construction of the railway between Thailand and Burma in the Second World War using forced labour and prisoners of war has been the subject of numerous memoirs, novels and the famous Hollywood film The Bridge over the River Kwai. Yet documentation and primary sources offering an account of the railway from a Japanese, Allied, POW and post-war perspective are scarce. This six-volume collection uses documents from archives in Australia, Great Britain, India, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the United States, Myanmar, Thailand and Japan to present a complete picture of the reality of the 'death' railway.