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Last Man Out

Surviving the Burma-Thailand Death Railway: A Memoir

by H. Robert Charles
James D. Hornfischer
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An American Marine recounts his ordeal as a World War II POW forced by the Japanese to build the railway immortalized in The Bridge on the River Kwai.
From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. One of the few who survived was American Marine H. Robert Charles, who describes the ordeal in vivid and harrowing detail in Last Man Out. The story mixes the unimaginable brutality of the camps with the inspiring courage of the men, such as a Dutch Colonial Army doctor whose skill and knowledge of the medicinal value of wild jungle herbs saved the lives of hundreds of his fellow POWs, including the author.
Praise for Last Man Out
"A remarkable story, long overdue, of the treatment of POW's captured by Japan." —Arthur L. Maher, USN, Senior officer to survive sinking of the USS Houston, POW of the Japanese in World War II
"In World War II, to move materials and troops from Japan to Burma by avoiding the perilous sea route around the Malay Peninsula, the Japanese military built a railroad through the jungles of Thailand and Burma at great human cost to its prisoner laborers. Last Man Out is an effective addition to the history of this tragedy." —Library Journal

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    December 20, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781616737603

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    • Library Journal

      December 1, 2006
      Charles was one of the few POWs to survive the building of the infamous railroadbasis for the classic film "The Bridge on the River Kwai"that took the lives of more than 100,000 imprisoned Allied soldiers and enslaved natives over 16 months from 1942 to 1943. His 1988 memoir details his captivity and the horrors bestowed by the Japanese.

      Copyright 2006 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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