Survivor on the River Kwai : the incredible story of life on the Burma railway / Reg Twigg.
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SoundPublisher number: SMP4751 | IsisPublisher: Oxford [England] : Isis, 2014Description: 2 audio discs (10 hr. 30 min.) : MP3, M4B audio, digital ; 12 cmContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781407949352Subject(s): Twigg, Reg, 1913-2013 | Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, BritishGenre/Form: Audiobooks. Reader: Michael Tudor Barnes.Summary: Called up in 1940, Reg expected to be fighting Germans. Instead, he found himself caught up in the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. What followed were three years of hell, moving from one camp to another along the Kwai river, building the infamous Burma railway. Reg made the deadly jungle work for him. With an ingenuity that is astonishing, he trapped and ate lizards, harvested pumpkins from the canteen rubbish heap and with his homemade razor became camp barber. That Reg survived is testimony to his own courage and determination, his will to beat the alien brutality of camp guards who had nothing but contempt for him and his fellow POWs.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wnor- audio | Northam | B / TWI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | MP3 | 31111052640099 |
Complete and unabridged.
M4b file included for the convenience of iPod/iPhone users.
Called up in 1940, Reg expected to be fighting Germans. Instead, he found himself caught up in the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. What followed were three years of hell, moving from one camp to another along the Kwai river, building the infamous Burma railway. Reg made the deadly jungle work for him. With an ingenuity that is astonishing, he trapped and ate lizards, harvested pumpkins from the canteen rubbish heap and with his homemade razor became camp barber. That Reg survived is testimony to his own courage and determination, his will to beat the alien brutality of camp guards who had nothing but contempt for him and his fellow POWs.
Reader: Michael Tudor Barnes.
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