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Long Way Back to the River Kwai

by Loet Velmans
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Loet Velmans was seventeen when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman's Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies—now Indonesia—where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave labor camps, building a railroad through the dense jungle on the Burmese-Thailand border so the Japanese could invade India. Some 200,000 POWs and slave laborers died building this Death Railway. Velmans, though suffering from malaria, dysentery, malnutrition, and unspeakable mistreatment, never gave up hope. Fifty-seven years later he returned to revisit the place where he should have died and where he had buried his closest friend. From that emotional visit sprung this stunning memoir.
Long Way Back to the River Kwai is a simply told but searing memoir of World War II—a testimonial to one man's indomitable will to live that will take its place beside the Diary of Ann Frank, Bridge over the River Kwai, and Edith's Story.
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Publisher: Arcade

Kindle Book

  • Release date: September 1, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781628721652
  • Release date: September 1, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781628721652
  • File size: 7172 KB
  • Release date: September 1, 2011

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History Military Nonfiction

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:8.5
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:7

Loet Velmans was seventeen when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman's Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies—now Indonesia—where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave labor camps, building a railroad through the dense jungle on the Burmese-Thailand border so the Japanese could invade India. Some 200,000 POWs and slave laborers died building this Death Railway. Velmans, though suffering from malaria, dysentery, malnutrition, and unspeakable mistreatment, never gave up hope. Fifty-seven years later he returned to revisit the place where he should have died and where he had buried his closest friend. From that emotional visit sprung this stunning memoir.
Long Way Back to the River Kwai is a simply told but searing memoir of World War II—a testimonial to one man's indomitable will to live that will take its place beside the Diary of Ann Frank, Bridge over the River Kwai, and Edith's Story.
Expand title description text
History Military Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Arcade

    Kindle Book
    Release date: September 1, 2011

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781628721652
    Release date: September 1, 2011

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781628721652
    File size: 7172 KB
    Release date: September 1, 2011

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    ATOS Level: 8.5
    Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    Text Difficulty: 7
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