The Railway Man - - 6 Angebote vergleichen

Lieferung aus: Kanada, Shipping costs to: IRL.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Eric James.
London: Vintage UK, 1996. Trade paperback, 276 pages; gently used, one spine crease, light finger soiling to fore edge, neat seven-word ink gift inscription on title page, otherwise clean and unmarked. PLEASE NOTE: the Stock Image provided by next to my listing is not an image of my copy but rather a copy with a different front cover. For another account of Japanese POW camp life, see our listings for Captain Freddie Guest's Escape from the Bloodied Sun, and Laurens van der Post's The Night of the New Moon, and for a larger view of the era, John Master's Three-Volume Set: Bugles and a Tiger, The Road Past Mandalay, and Pilgrim Son.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good -.

Lieferung aus: Niederlande, 3-4 werkdagen.
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The passion for trains and railroads is, I have been told, incurable. I have also learned that there is no cure for torture. These two afflictions have been intimately linked in the course of my life, and yet through some chance combination of luck and grace I have survived them both I was born in Edinburgh, in the lowlands of Scotland, in 1919. My father was an official in the General Post Office there, a career which he had started as a boy of 16 and which he intended me to imitate to the lett... The passion for trains and railroads is, I have been told, incurable. I have also learned that there is no cure for torture. These two afflictions have been intimately linked in the course of my life, and yet through some chance combination of luck and grace I have survived them both I was born in Edinburgh, in the lowlands of Scotland, in 1919. My father was an official in the General Post Office there, a career which he had started as a boy of 16 and which he intended me to imitate to the letter. He was fascinated by telephony and telegraphy, and I grew up in a world in which tinkering and inventing and making were honoured past-times. I vividly remember the first time that my father placed a giant set of headphones around my ears and I heard, through the hiss and buzz of far-off-energies, a disembodied human voice In the worst times, much later, when I thought I was about to die in pain and shock at the hands of men who could not imagine anything of my life, who had no respect for who I was or my history, I might have wished that my father had had a different passion. But in the 1920s, technology was still powerful and beautiful without being menacing. Who would have thought that a radio, for example, could cause terrible harm? It seemed to be a wonderful instrument by which people could speak to each other; and yet I heard Hitler ranting over airwaves, and saw two men beaten to death for their part in making such an instrument, and suffered for my own part in it for a half a century.Soort: Met illustraties;Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 17x198x129 mm;Gewicht: 191,00 gram;Verschijningsdatum: januari 1998;ISBN10: 0099582317;ISBN13: 9780099582311; Engelstalig | Paperback | 1998.

Lieferung aus: Deutschland, Versandkosten nach: Deutschland.
Von Privat, xv12k0g, [3549047].
Winner of the waterstones. Esquire award for non fiction. During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work of 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 the Medical Fooundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he came to terms with what had happened and, fifty years after the terrible events, was able to meet one of his tormentors. Taschenbuch, leichte Gebrauchsspuren, 200g.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, 3-5 days.
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. 13x20cm.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, 3 - 5 working days.
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.