THE BIG SALE IS ON! TELL ME MORE
Eric Lomax was born in 1919. During the Second World War he was captured and tortured by the Japanese Army and forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam railway. He met and forgave his torturer in 1995. He died in October 2012.
Forget the grueling films, just read the brilliant books Independent When I turned to the book, the complexity of Lomax's emotions came alive and burned off the page Independent Of all the billions of words that have been written about the Second World War, with the exception of Churchill's Nobel Prize winning history, it is not an exaggeration to say there is no account of it more worth reading that this. Wistfully romantic, historically important, startling, horrifying and ultimately electrifyingly uplifting, The Railway Man is as indispensable as any book can be. -- Tom Peck Independent A profound and beautifully written story...one of the most moving accounts to have come out of the Second World War Sunday Times This book has to be read Independent
