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The bridge over the River Kwai : a novel / Pierre Boulle ; translated by Xan Fielding.
1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one prisoner, Colonel Nicholson, a proud perfectionist. Pitted against the warden, Colonel Saito, Nicholson will nevertheless, out of a distorted sense of duty, aid his enemy. While on the outside, as the Allies race to destroy the bridge, Nicholson must decide which will be the first casualty: his patriotism or his pride. -- Publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780891419136
- Physical Description: 207 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: Presidio Press trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 2007.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Reprint. Originally published: New York : Vanguard Press, 1954. Translation from the French of: Pont de la rivière Kwaï. |
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| Subject: | Burma-Siam Railroad > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese > Fiction. Burma > Fiction. |
| Genre: | War fiction. French fiction > Translations into English. |
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