The Burma Railway is one of many grim legacies of the horrors of WWII. Discover the story of how it was constructed and its ...

A new series, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, is set during the Burma campaign. Will we ever get the full story of the ...

In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded ... And so it was decided that a railway connecting Thailand and Burma would be constructed through dense tropical jungle over hilly ...

The brutal use of British prisoners of war by the Japanese to build a railway linking Thailand to Burma in 1943 was one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War. For the first time in 70 ...

Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied prisoners of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WW2. His experiences, after the secret radio he built to bring news ...

One of the most celebrated novels of the 21st century, Richard Flanagan's 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is receiving fresh acclaim after the premiere of its television adaptation.