A veteran believed to be the last surviving Allied prisoner forced to work on the infamous Burma Death Railway has died aged 104. Jack Jennings survived the brutal forced labour on the railway line, ...
Even as a young man, Jack Jennings was something of an expert on wood. He knew his oak from his ash, and his elm from his beech. Since leaving school at 14 he had worked with wood, first on the ...
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Colin Firth brings to life the true story of Eric Lomax, a former British officer reliving the horrors he faced as a Japanese prisoner during World War II while being forced to help build the infamous ...
This story has been contributed for the People's War archive by David Mannock on behalf of his old friend George Watts. George Watts was a Londoner and I first met him at a hotel in Devon at Christmas ...
Made famous by the film The Bridge over the River Kwai, the Thai-Burma railway that once resulted in the death of thousands could help unite Southeast Asia by 2015. Made famous by the film The Bridge ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. MARK COLVIN: There are few of them left now, veterans of the sadism and brutality of the Thai-Burma ...
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