Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American
soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was
then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the
film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this moving and unforgettable
memoir, Eddie recalls how he, a second-generation Chinese American
born and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown, reinvented himself as
a Texas cowboy before going overseas with the U.S. Army. On the way
to the Philippines, his battalion was captured by the Japanese in
Java and sent to Burma to undertake the impossible task of building
a railroad through 262 miles of tropical jungle. Working under
brutal slave labour conditions, the men completed the railroad in
fourteen months, at the cost of 16,000 POW and 70,000 Asian lives.
Eddie lived to tell how his background helped him endure forty-two
months of humiliation and cruelty and how his experiences as the
sole Chinese American member of the most decorated Texan unit of
any war shaped his later life.
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