Talk by Major Paul Whittle

Built at appalling human cost, the 250-mile World War II Burma-Thailand ‘Death Railway’ was a vital transport link for the Japanese war effort. This talk covers the planning, construction and operation of the line including the two Kwai bridges.

This remarkable story is then contrasted with the fiction of the award-winning, but controversial 1957 film ‘Bridge on the River Kwai’.

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