Description
This is a book about a surgeon in a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway during World War II. He is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. He is struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, and he receives a letter that will change his life.
In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his...