also known as the Death Railway and the Siam–Burma Railway, claimed the lives of many Allied prisoners of war during the Second World War. The POWs were forced by the Japanese to build the ...

Captured during the Battle of Java he is taken as a prisoner of war (POW), where he is forced to lead his Australian soldiers on the building of the Burma-Thailand Railway. Rather than an executor ...

a torrid love affair in his 20s and his time as a POW on the Thai-Burma Railway in World War II. Flanagan's only request to Kurzel was to retain the book's non-linear structure, a wish the ...

who is haunted by memories of an affair with his uncle’s wife and his experiences as a Far East prisoner of war during the construction of the Burma Railway. Decades after the harrowing ...

who is drafted to the Philippines to aid in the construction of the Burma Railway. Prior to going to war, Dorrigo is engaged to Ella (Olivia DeJonge) but falls into an all-consuming affair with ...

Evans was forced to work on the Thai-Burma railway in the jungle of a Japanese ... when it came time to film the Japanese POW scenes. ''Being able to have those memories while we were shooting ...

The series, written by Shaun Grant and directed by Justin Kurzel, is unflinching in its depiction of how these men were used as forced labour to build the Burma Railway. But the literariness of ...

Cicely Ball was among the last surviving veterans of the Allies' campaign in Burma, now Myanmar, during the conflict. Mrs Ball, who served in the Royal Air Force and the Army, passed away in early ...

But it was far from the expected path for the Bidjara and Birri-Gubbu Juru woman whose father died at 38 from injuries sustained as a prisoner of war on the Thai-Burma railway. Professor Huggins ...