An Immortal Touch of The Death Railway and the River Kwai Bridge -In Remembrance of Blood and Tears, A Grim Episode of World War II - Kanchanaburi, Thailand de No Author / J P - 1995

No Place of Publication: No Place: No Publisher, No Date (circa 1995 ), 1st Edition, First Printing, 1995. ------------softcover, about 8 x 11.5 inches, a Near Fine copy, 60 pages, b&w photos throughout, ---"In June 1942, 61,000 British, Australian, American, New Zealand, Danish and Dutch POWs as well as an estimated 200,000 labourers from India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Burma and Thailand were put to work by the Japanese Imperial Army to construct a railway line 415 km long to link Kanchanaburi to the Japanese Base Camp in Thanbyuzayat in Burma, thus ensuring a direct line from Singapore through Malaya ans Thailand to link up with the railway network in Burma. Apart from supplying their bases in Burma, the Japanese had also planned to use the railway to launch an attack on India"---, contents include: Introduction; The Need for the railway; The Thai-Burma Railway; The Bridge on the River Kwai; "A": Force Begin Work on the Railway; Dunlop Force, Thailand; The cutting and the pack of cards bridge; The long march of "F" Force; "H" Force, Infamous Conditions and Cholera, Thailand; The Burma and Thailand lines join; Asian Labour; The Thai-Burma Railroad and Beyond (text of a talk by Fred Selker to the Kwai Railway Memorial at their 1997 Annual General Meeting ); Cemeteries; The Great Movies -The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine (see description). Illus. by Photo Cover. 8w x 11h Inches.