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The Bridge over the River Kwai
- Book ID
- 126314309
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Year
- 1961
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 6 MB
- Category
- Standards
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✦ Synopsis
Colonel Nicholson was an exemplary British officer. When his Japanese captors ordered him to build a strategic assault bridge in southeast Asia, the colonel’s code of military honor left him no choice but to obey. Though they were sick and wounded, he set his men to work, toiling in the jungle heat. He intended to complete a perfect bridge in record time—even though his Imperial Majesty’s Army would use it for the invasion of India.
Meanwhile, half across the continent, “Force 316” of British Intelligence was already plotting how to blow up the bridge…
✦ Subjects
Военная проза
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Colonel Nicholson was an exemplary British officer. When his Japanese captors ordered him to build a strategic assault bridge in southeast Asia, the colonel’s code of military honor left him no choice but to obey. Though they were sick and wounded, he set his men to work, toiling in the jungle heat.
1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one prisoner, Colonel Nicholson, a proud perfectionist. Pitted against the warden,
### Review “[A] lightning-fast adventure and suspense story.” –San Francisco Chronicle “An amazing story . . . jumpy with suspense.” –The New Yorker “A fine story of adventure in which a highly original conception makes a psychologically rich situation out of what could have easily been a sim