The Railway Man

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This is a harrowing but very honest and ultimately compassionate memoir Now is the time to read the true life story of Scot Eric Lomax... A story of courage and survival It made me cry, I felt angry at man’s inhumanity to man and yet uplifted by the way Eric finally came to terms with the suffering he’d endured and was able to forgive A story worth preserving A powerful autobiography that shines a light on a difficult period in history What a great book. What a great man Forget the grueling films, just read the brilliant books This beautiful, awkward book tells the story of a fine and awkward man. Here, I think, is an account that rises above mere timeliness and comes near to being a classic of autobiography When I turned to the book, the complexity of Lomax's emotions came alive and burned off the page Of all the billions of words that have been written about the Second World War, with the exception of Churchill's Nobel Prize winning history, it is not an exaggeration to say there is no account of it more worth reading that this. Wistfully romantic, historically important, startling, horrifying and ultimately electrifyingly uplifting, The Railway Man is as indispensable as any book can be. Expand reviews