![]() Colonel Nicholson marches his men into Prisoner of War Camp 16, commanded by Colonel Saito. ![]() ![]() The story describes the mistreatment of prisoners in the POW camp and how they tried to sabotage the construction of the bridge. The novel won France's Prix Sainte-Beuve in 1952. The novel deals with the plight of World War II British prisoners of war forced by the Imperial Japanese Army to build a bridge for the "Death Railway", so named because of the large number of prisoners and conscripts who died during its construction. ![]() The story is fictional but uses the construction of the Burma Railway, in 1942–1943, as its historical setting, and is partly based on Pierre Boulle's own life experience working in Malaysia rubber plantations and later working for allied forces in Singapore and Indochina during World War II. The Bridge over the River Kwai (French: Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï) is a novel by the French novelist Pierre Boulle, published in French in 1952 and English translation by Xan Fielding in 1954. Copyright 1954 translated by Xan Fielding Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York hardbound very good condition with unmarked pages and strong binding dust jacket has edge wear - see pics. ![]()
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