TO THE RIVER KWAI - TWO JOURNEYS 1943, 1979

Author: John Stewart

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Year published: 1988

Pagination: 175pp, map, illustrations

Condition: Good in d/w

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Taken prisoner in 1942 in Singapore, the author was one of the few survivors of the Sonkurai camp on the Siam railway. He kept a diary which is the basis for this memoir, and which amounts to a meditation on the contradictory code of behaviour of the Japanese who kept him prisoner in such appalling conditions. His second journey up the Kwai took him beyond Sonkurai to the Three Pagodas Pass and into Burma with the guerrillas. In 1958, Stewart was David Lean's technical adviser during the shooting of Bridge On The River Kwai.