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Survivor on the River Kwai - The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway (Paperback)
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Survivor on the River Kwai - The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway (Paperback)
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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 The Forgotten Highlander, Survivor on the
River Kwai is Reg's story - his pain, his triumphs and even his
forgiveness. 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.
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