The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness is a book by Eric Lomax.
Eric Sutherland Lomax was a British Army officer who was sent to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in 1942. He is most famous for writing a book, The Railway Man, on his experience before, during, and after World War II, which won the 1996 NCR Book Award and the J. R. Ackerley Prize for... Autobiography. Lomax was a Royal Signals officer attached to the 5th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. He was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1940. He was a Lieutenant when captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, and was promoted to Captain after his release. He was mentioned in despatches for his service while in captivity. He was awarded the Efficiency Medal in 1949 and was granted the hon. rank of captain. Lomax's later life included reconciliation with one of his former torturers, interpreter Nagase Takashi of Kurashiki, Japan, on the bridge over the river Kwai, which was built by prisoner-of-war labour. Takashi had written a book on his own experiences during and after the war entitled Crosses and Tigers, and financed a Buddhist temple at the bridge to atone for his actions during the war.more
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