“Some time the hating has to stop,” reads the last line of “The Railway Man,” a moving tale of wartime torture and forgiveness by former British prisoner of war Eric Lomax. Lomax was a British army ...

Frank McVey recently shared the fascinating story of the Siam-Burma Railway over in the Google Earth Community. The railway was built during World War II, as an effort to help connect the railway ...

This story has been contributed for the People's War archive by David Mannock on behalf of his old friend George Watts. George Watts was a Londoner and I first met him at a hotel in Devon at Christmas ...

Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife forced to revisit the trauma of his WWII past in Jonathan Teplitzky's drama based on the true story of Eric Lomax. By David Rooney Chief Film ...

An alternately delicate and brutal retelling of the memoir by former World War II British Army officer Eric Lomax, “The Railway Man” is an impressively crafted, skillfully acted, highly absorbing ...

MY DAD, IVOR DOUGLAS JOINED THE 2ND BATTALION MANCHESTER REGIMENT IN 1937. IT SEEMS THAT HE WAS ABLE TO DISGUISE HIS AGE AS HE WAS ONLY 15 AT THE TIME! I KNOW LITTLE OF HIS EARLY ARMY DAYS BUT IN 1939 ...

Row after row of neatly arranged rectangular gravestones stretch across the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, forming a dark gray silent phalanx of 6,977 tiles punctuated in precise intervals by ...