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'Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town
Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language...
remarkable' Guardian Jean Paget is just twenty years old and
working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is
captured she joins a group of other European women and children
whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an
experience that leads to the deaths of many. Due to her courageous
spirit and ability to speak Malay, Jean takes on the role of leader
of the sorry gaggle of prisoners and many end up owing their lives
to her indomitable spirit. While on the march, the group run into
some Australian prisoners, one of whom, Joe Harman, helps them
steal some food, and is horrifically punished by the Japanese as a
result. After the war, Jean tracks Joe down in Australia and
together they begin to dream of surmounting the past and
transforming his one-horse outback town into a thriving community
like Alice Springs... With an introduction by Eric Lomax, author of
The Railway Man
This is the story of innocence betrayed, of passion and curiosity
about the world of machines turned nightmarish and punished by the
cruelty of which only humans are capable. It is also a story of
survival and courage. Eric Lomax was tortured by the Japanese on
the Burma-Siam Railway. Fifty years later he met one of his
tormentors.
A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making acrude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences. Almost 50 years after the war, however, his life was changed by the discovery that his interrogator, the Japanese interpretor, was still alive - their reconciliation is the culmination of this extraordinary story.
During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the
notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for
making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form
normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with the help
of his wife, Patti Lomax, and of the Medical Foundation for the
Care of Victims of Torture, he came terms with what happened. Fifty
years after the terrible events, he was able to meet one of his
tormentors. The Railway Man is a story of innocence betrayed, and
of survival and courage in the face of horror.
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