The Railway Man : A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness (Paperback) 9780393334982

from tommi180744

A sublime piece of writing on a theme that has spawned many novels, but very few matching Lomax's deep sensitivity for the supreme heights of humanity & depravity at the core of experience of those involved in World War Two and the personal affects in its aftermath.

from Stbalbach

For better or worse the power of this war memoir is in describing the horrible tortures and deprivations that a young Scottish man undergoes after being taken prison by the Japanese at the start of the war.To be fair he also finds redemption and undergoes change giving it a novelistic quality. We...

from TheWasp

Eric Lomax was young English Signaller with had a passion for trains, who was taken prisoner by the Japanese in Thailand between 1942 and 1945. Following the discovery of a radio, he and 6 others were savagely beaten and tortured. The subsequent death of 2 of these men becoming part of the Japane...

from Lukerik

I did an English course last year and we studied an extract of this book (pages 303-4), so when I saw it in a charity shop I snapped it up. An excellent book by a man who was so badly tortured during the war that he forgot how to read. Not just an important historical document but also an importa...

from Carol420

[The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness] by Eric Lomax 3.5&#9733's What's It About? It's a remarkable memoir of forgiveness-a tremendous testament to the courage that propels one toward remembrance, and finally, peace with the past. Eric Lomax, sent to Malaya i...