Lead Review

  • Book: The Railway Man
  • Location: Burma (Myanmar)
  • Author: Eric Lomax

Review Author: tripfiction

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Content

Beautiful, poignant, shaming of man’s inhumanity to man, saddening, horrifying. Eric Lomax as a child loved the steam railways and it was ironic that he ended up building the Burma/Siam railway as a prisoner of war, under the Japanese. Uplifting in many ways, it is also truly harrowing.

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