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Von Händler/Antiquariat, AwesomeBooks [51737811], Wallingford, United Kingdom.
Sweet Kwai Run Softly This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, CHARLES BOSSOM.
Merriotts Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1995. Hard Cover. 8vo 0952676303 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Green cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Map. 272 pp clean and tight. An extremely interesting account of British Soldier and his time as a Japanese Prisoner of War in the Second World War. .

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The notorious Burma-Siam railway left its mark on all prisoners-of-war, but especially those of an impressionable age. Stephen Alexander was 22, a subaltern in the Hertfordshire Yeomanry, when Singapore capitulated to the Japanese in February 1942, three weeks after his regiment had disembarked. He worked first on the 'bridge over the river Kwai', and later in the jungle near the Burmese border. 1943 was the worst year, with the Japanese frantic to join the lines from Bangkok and Moulmein. Even survival tactics learned from old Malayan hands, Australians and Dutch colonial troops were no match for disease, starvation, brutality, and exhaustion. A stiff upper lip helped, and faith of some sort; so did cunning and humour; but the most important and the most unaccountable element was luck. The author's will to live depended on old allegiances (his family, Bristol, Somerset, Cambridge) and on new friends (even including the odd Japanese). Yet, although the deadly nature of this alien corner of the world was unforgettable, so too was its beauty, In 1944 and most of the surviving prisoners back from the jungle and among friendly Thais, work lessened and rations increased. So, too, did feelings of frustration and the need to let off steam. Repatriation after the fall of the atom bomb presented new challenges as the author and his friends returned - feeling like strangers in their own country - to families, universities and the search for jobs. Slowly, past adversities began to feed future hopes. Fifty years later, intrigued by the reappearance of a map of Cambridge drawn and lost in Thailand, Stephen Alexander returned to the Kwai with his wife. The sight of the river and of the graves beside it (his batman's among them) proved a revelatory experience. On the Kwai itself the war had left its mark no less deeply - for good and ill - than on the author and his companions, Kindle Edition, Format: Kindle eBook, Label: Merriotts Press, Merriotts Press, Product group: eBooks, Published: 2017-05-06, Release date: 2017-05-06, Studio: Merriotts Press.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Avon Hill Books.
Merriotts Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0952676303 . Slight scratching to dust jcket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pp .

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Greener Books Ltd.
Merriotts Press. Paperback. Used; Good.