The Railway Man

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He trained somewhat in Scotland and England – and then was shipped to India and finally Singapore in November of 1941. a b Simon Richards, 'Two TFA Council Members Making the News', Freedom Today: The Journal of the Freedom Association, Spring 2012, p.

And, after "King Rat", "The Forgotten Highlander" and "Faith, Hope and Rice", I had decided that, this time seriously, I wasn't going to read any more POW accounts of captivity in Japanese-held east Asia. AS the years go by, they are released after the Japanese surrenders to the Allied Forces in 1945 immediately after the nuclear bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thirty years later, Lomax is still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, though strongly supported by his wife, Patricia, whom he had met on one of his many train excursions, a true railway enthusiast. Unable to talk about his experiences to anyone and told to move on, he does the best he can but is constantly haunted by the brutality of his prison years. Lomax and six others were found to be guilty of having constructed radios and listened to broadcasts from the Allied forces and potentially communicated with subversive forces in Malaya.Some part of him, however, – his mind- continued to function in that stressful condition even after the war ended.

However, The Railway Man true story reveals that, unlike the film, the real Eric Lomax's intention was more about finding closure rather than seeking revenge. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. During the Second World War, Eric Lomax is a British officer who is captured by the Japanese in Singapore and sent to a Japanese POW camp, where he is forced to work on the Thai- Burma Railway north of the Malay Peninsula. It marked the first time that Eric was able to talk about his experiences at length and helped him to prepare for his meeting with one of his former Japanese tormentors.Eric became distant and he struggled with meeting the demands of daily life, including paying the bills.