Survivor on the River Kwai: The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway

Survivor on the River Kwai: The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway
Reg Twigg (Author)

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Survivor on the River Kwai is the heartbreaking story of Reg Twigg, one of the last survivors of the Burma Railway.

February 1942. A young British soldier is caught up in the worst defeat in the history of the British Army, the fall of Singapore.

Reg Twigg spends the next three years in hell, moving from jungle camp to jungle camp and building the Burma Railway for the all-conquering Japanese. Beaten, tortured, starving and forced to watch his comrades die, Reg fights for his sruvival, stealing from his captors, trapping animals and even making his own tobacco. 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.

As moving and harrowing as The Last Fighting Tommy, with the drama of David Lean's The Bridge Over the River Kwai and the heart of The Forgotten Highlander, Survivor on the River Kwai is Reg's story - his pain, his triumphs and even his forgiveness.

Reg Twigg was born at Wigston (Leicester) barracks on 16 December 1913, just a few months before the outbreak of the First World War. He was called up to the Leicestershire Regiment in 1940 but instead of fighting Hitler he was sent to the Far East, stationed at Singapore. When captured by the Japanese he decided he would do everything to survive. After the war Reg worked as a warehouseman until retirement, cycling twenty miles daily to Leicester. He still lives in Leicester, and with his family he visited the sites of the POW camps in Thailand in 2006.

• Rank: #425957 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-05-23
• Released on: 2013-05-23
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