TY - BOOK AU - Gordon,Ernie TI - To end all wars: a true story about the will to survive and the courage to forgive AV - D805.G662.T646 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Great Rapids, Michigan, [Great Britain] PB - Zondervan KW - Burma-Siam Railroad KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese KW - Personal narratives, British N1 - 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; 2; Originally published as: Through the valley of the Kwai /Great Britain : Wm Collins Sons and Company, 1963 - published as: Miracle on the River Kwai N2 - 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 ER -