‘The passion for trains and railways is, I have been told, incurable. I have also learned that there is no cure for torture’
To mark the centenary of the First World War, Vintage is launching a unique collection of war fiction. April 2014 will see the publication of twelve works by the greatest writers of the last
century, each tackling this most powerful and universal of subjects.
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Eric Lomax was born in 1919. During the Second World War he was captured and tortured by the Japanese Army and forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam railway. He met and forgave his
torturer in 1995. He died in October 2012.