The bridge over the River Kwai /
Boulle, Pierre,
The bridge over the River Kwai / Pierre Boulle ; translated by Xan Fielding. - New York, NY : Vanguard Press, 1954. - 224 p. ;
"Eleventh printing."
1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one prisoner, Colonel Nicholson, a proud perfectionist. Pitted against the warden, Colonel Saito, Nicholson will nevertheless, out of a distorted sense of duty, aid his enemy. While on the outside, as the Allies race to destroy the bridge, Nicholson must decide which will be the first casualty: his patriotism or his pride.
9780891905714 0891905715
Burma-Siam Railroad
World War, 1939-1945
843.9
The bridge over the River Kwai / Pierre Boulle ; translated by Xan Fielding. - New York, NY : Vanguard Press, 1954. - 224 p. ;
"Eleventh printing."
1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one prisoner, Colonel Nicholson, a proud perfectionist. Pitted against the warden, Colonel Saito, Nicholson will nevertheless, out of a distorted sense of duty, aid his enemy. While on the outside, as the Allies race to destroy the bridge, Nicholson must decide which will be the first casualty: his patriotism or his pride.
9780891905714 0891905715
Burma-Siam Railroad
World War, 1939-1945
843.9