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Original Title:	The Railway Man
ISBN:	0099582317 (ISBN13: 9780099582311)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Burma Myanmar England
Literary Awards:	NCR Book Award (1996), J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography (1996)

The Railway Man

Eric Lomax

Paperback | Pages: 246 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 6006 Users | 637 Reviews

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Title	:	The Railway Man
Author	:	Eric Lomax
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 246 pages
Published	:	June 6th 1996 by Vintage (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Biography. War. Autobiography. Memoir. World War II

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During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.

Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife Patti and the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he came to terms with what had happened and, fifty years after the terrible events, was able to meet one of his tormentors.

The Railway Man is an incredible story of innocence betrayed, and of survival and courage in the face of horror.

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Review on my blogThe Railway Man It is strange, looking back now, to think of those boys at school to whom I was never really close. Men born ten years after me could speculate idly about their schoolmates, but that option was closed to me by events in China and Central Europe while I was growing up. I know exactly what happened to each of my contemporaries. Of the twenty-five of us in our final year at school, only four survived the war. OverviewThe Railway Man is an incredibly touching

This account of the author's experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war is, as you'd expect, a fairly harrowing one. But what lifts this remarkable tale is the book's humanity and compassion, and the tenderness of its narrative.Whether Eric Lomax is re-living his childhood fascination with steam locomotives and trams, or describing the horrendous, inhuman acts of torture, the prose are consistently imbued with an almost poetic and innocent sense of wonder.The details, observations and character

The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness by Eric Lomax3.5★'sWhat's It About?It's a remarkable memoir of forgivenessa tremendous testament to the courage that propels one toward remembrance, and finally, peace with the past. Eric Lomax, sent to Malaya in World War II, was taken prisoner by the Japanese and put to punishing work on the notorious Burma-Siam railway. After the radio he illicitly helped to build in order to follow war news was discovered, he was

This is an extraordinary personal rendition of the ordeal of this mans life. The writing is to the point and very poignant, giving much feeling to the sufferings the author endured.The author had a rather sheltered life in Scotland. His descriptions of his upbringing and his infatuation with trains give stark contrast to the later events. Given his predilection for structure, the army also provided that, when he was recruited at the outbreak of war in 1939. He trained somewhat in Scotland and

This is an extraordinary personal rendition of the ordeal of this mans life. The writing is to the point and very poignant, giving much feeling to the sufferings the author endured.The author had a rather sheltered life in Scotland. His descriptions of his upbringing and his infatuation with trains give stark contrast to the later events. Given his predilection for structure, the army also provided that, when he was recruited at the outbreak of war in 1939. He trained somewhat in Scotland and

I don't know why I'm always fascinated in reading memoir of POWs or anyone who lived during the WWII. This is my nth time to read a novel with the same setting and I always imagine putting myself on the shoes of those who experienced the war.The hardships of these POWs are detailed on these novels and I can't fathom on how the oppressors could easily torture them. How can these devils still sleep at night or did they have conscience, are just some of the questions bugged me whenever I read this

A very difficult but compelling read, this is the story of a man who went through the utmost brutality in WW11 but had the courage to realise that the process of forgiving one of his captors would help heal himself. This is a very difficult read in places. All of the rubbish tv in the world (Hannibal, CSI etc) cannot match some of the scenes in this book for horror and absolute lack of humanity. The eternal question is, what happens to some men that during times of war all the rulebooks of