Through the Valley of the Kwai
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Through the Valley of the Kwai (also published under the titles Miracle on the River Kwai and To End All Wars) is the autobiography
of a Scottish captain named Ernest Gordon
and recounts the experiences of faith
and hope of the men held in a Japan
ese prisoner of war
labour camp, building the Burma Railway during the last three and a half years of World War II
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The book was adapted into a film in 2001 under the title To End All Wars
.
Autobiography
An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...
of a Scottish captain named Ernest Gordon
Ernest Gordon
Ernest Gordon was the former Presbyterian dean of the chapel at Princeton University. A native of Scotland, as an officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Gordon spent three years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during the Second World War...
and recounts the experiences of faith
Faith
Faith is confidence or trust in a person or thing, or a belief that is not based on proof. In religion, faith is a belief in a transcendent reality, a religious teacher, a set of teachings or a Supreme Being. Generally speaking, it is offered as a means by which the truth of the proposition,...
and hope of the men held in a Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese prisoner of war
Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...
labour camp, building the Burma Railway during the last three and a half years of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
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The book was adapted into a film in 2001 under the title To End All Wars
To End All Wars
To End All Wars is a 2001 war film starring Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland and Sakae Kimura and directed by David L. Cunningham.- Storyline :...
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See also
- Dusty MillerDusty Miller (martyr)"Dusty" Miller was a British P.O.W. in Thailand on the Burma Railway during Second World War. His life and death is attested to in Ernest Gordon's autobiographical work Through the Valley of the Kwai .-Background:Miller was a gardener from Newcastle and a Methodist...
- The Bridge over the River Kwai - a novel with a similar theme
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by Shusaku EndoShusaku EndoShūsaku Endō was a 20th-century Japanese author who wrote from the unusual perspective of being both Japanese and Catholic...