Gordon, Ernie,

To end all wars : a true story about the will to survive and the courage to forgive / [print] Ernest Gordon. - Great Rapids, Michigan : [Great Britain] : Zondervan, (c)2002. - viii, 232 pages, 8. pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.

Introduction -- Memory of Ernest Gordon -- Death House -- Soldiers at Sea -- Our Hosts -- Valley of Death -- Miracle on the River Kwai -- For Thou Art With Me -- Church Without Walls -- Christmas Day, 1943 -- On from Chungkai -- Last Trek -- Through the Valley -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements.

When Ernest Gordon was twenty-four he was captured by the Japanese and forced, with other British prisoners, to build the notorious 'Railroad of Death'. Faced with the appalling conditions of the prisoners' camp and the brutality of the captors, he survived to become an inspiring example of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds.



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Burma-Siam Railroad.


World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British.

D805.G662.T646 2002 D805