Survivor on the River Kwai : the incredible story of life on the Burma Railway

"Reg Twigg is one of the last men standing from a forgotten war. Called up in 1940, he expected to be fighting Germans. Instead, he found himself caught up in the worst military defeat in modern British history - the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. That Reg survived is testimony to his own courage and determination, his will to beat the alien brutality of camp guards who had nothing but contempt for him and his fellow POWs. He was a risk taker whose survival strategies sometimes bordered on genius."
""Reg Twigg was called up in 1940 and expected to fight Germans. Instead, he was sent to Singapore just before it fell to the Japanese. For three years he was held in camps along the Kwai river, building the infamous Burma railway for the Imperial Army. Tens of thousands died, succumbing to malaria, cholera, malnutrition, heatstroke, lethal snakes and river floods. But Reg ingenuously turned to the deadly jungle for survival: he trapped and ate lizards, harvested pumpkins from the canteen rubbish heap and made a razor to act as the camp's barber. Reg's extraordinary story - one of courage and determination and the will to beat a terrifyingly brutal regime which mercilessly killed thousands of British soldiers"--Back cover."@en

"Survivor on the River Kwai : the incredible story of life on the Burma Railway"@en
"Survivor on the River Kwai : the incredible story of life on the Burma Railway"
"Survivor on the River Kwai"@en