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RAILWAY MAN,THE
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| By: |
Eric Lomax |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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£7.29 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099582317 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099582311 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 1996 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
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 and the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. |
| Synopsis: |
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 a crude 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 interpreter, was still alive - their reconciliation is the culmination of this extraordinary story. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Joe Ackerley Prize 1996
Winner of J.R. Ackerley Prize 1996
Winner of NCR Book Award 1996
Winner of AT & T Non-Fiction Award 1996
Winner of Esquire/Apple/Waterstone Non-Fiction Award 1995
Short-listed for McVities Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year 1995 |
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