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Survivor on the River Kwai is the heartbreaking story of one of the last survivors of the Burma Railway.

February 1942. A young British soldier is caught up in the worst defeat in the history of the British Army, the fall of Singapore.

Reg Twigg spends the next three years in hell, moving from jungle camp to jungle camp and building the Burma Railway for the all-conquering Japanese. Beaten, tortured, starving and forced to watch his comrades die, Reg fights for his survival, stealing from his captors, trapping animals and even making his own tobacco. 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.

As moving and harrowing as The Last Fighting Tommy, with the drama of David Lean''s The Bridge Over the River Kwai and the heart of
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One of the finest accounts yet of life in the jungle PoW camps, at once humbling, heartwarming and enraging -- Allan Mallinson * The Times *

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 6 March 2014
      ISBN-13 9780241965115
      978-0241965115
      ISBN-10 024196511X
      Also in:
      Biography Memoirs History Asian history Military History Modern warfare

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Survivor on the River Kwai is the heartbreaking story of one of the last survivors of the Burma Railway.

      February 1942. A young British soldier is caught up in the worst defeat in the history of the British Army, the fall of Singapore.

      Reg Twigg spends the next three years in hell, moving from jungle camp to jungle camp and building the Burma Railway for the all-conquering Japanese. Beaten, tortured, starving and forced to watch his comrades die, Reg fights for his survival, stealing from his captors, trapping animals and even making his own tobacco. 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.

      As moving and harrowing as The Last Fighting Tommy, with the drama of David Lean''s The Bridge Over the River Kwai and the heart of
      Trade Review
      One of the finest accounts yet of life in the jungle PoW camps, at once humbling, heartwarming and enraging -- Allan Mallinson * The Times *

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