Burma Railway – Images of War

Illustrated insight into how allied prisoners were driven to the limits of human endurance

79+ years have passed since a brilliant young art student set sail from Liverpool to fight Japanese aggression in the Far East. Captured on arrival in the chaotic fall of Singapore in 1942, Jack Chalker joined the 60,000 allied prisoners driven to the limits of human endurance in the slave labour camps of the infamous Burma Thailand Railway.

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