To end all wars : a true story about the will to survive and the courage to forgive / Ernest Gordon.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Great Rapids, Mich. : [Great Britain] : Zondervan, 2002.Description: viii, 232 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0007118481
  • 9780007118489
Uniform titles:
  • Through the valley of the Kwai
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • D 805.J3 G65 2002
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Originally published as: Through the valley of the Kwai /Great Britain : Wm Collins Sons & Co., 1963 - published as: Miracle on the River Kwai / Fontana/Fount, 1965.
Contents:
Introduction -- Memory of Ernest Gordon -- Death House -- Soldiers at Sea -- Our Hosts -- Valley of Death -- Miracle on the River Kwai -- For Thou Art With Me -- Church Without Walls -- Christmas Day, 1943 -- On from Chungkai -- Last Trek -- Through the Valley -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements.
Summary: When Ernest Gordon was twenty-four he was captured by the Japanese and forced, with other British prisoners, to build the notorious 'Railroad of Death'. Faced with the appalling conditions of the prisoners' camp and the brutality of the captors, he survived to become an inspiring example of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds.
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Originally published as: Through the valley of the Kwai /Great Britain : Wm Collins Sons & Co., 1963 - published as: Miracle on the River Kwai / Fontana/Fount, 1965.

Introduction -- Memory of Ernest Gordon -- Death House -- Soldiers at Sea -- Our Hosts -- Valley of Death -- Miracle on the River Kwai -- For Thou Art With Me -- Church Without Walls -- Christmas Day, 1943 -- On from Chungkai -- Last Trek -- Through the Valley -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements.

When Ernest Gordon was twenty-four he was captured by the Japanese and forced, with other British prisoners, to build the notorious 'Railroad of Death'. Faced with the appalling conditions of the prisoners' camp and the brutality of the captors, he survived to become an inspiring example of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds.

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