Full name: The Bridge Over the River Kwai: A Novel

Author: Pierre Boulle Year: 1952 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction, Classic, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780891419136 0891419136

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, Colonel Saito, Nicholson will nevertheless, out of a distorted sense of duty, aid his enemy. While on the outside, as the Allies race to destroy the bridge, Nicholson must decide which will be the first casualty: his patriotism or his pride. Similar books: Battle Cry by Leon Uris The Thin Red Line by James Jones The Winds of War by Herman Wouk The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk Whistle by James Jones The War Lover by John Hersey The Beardless Warriors by Richard Matheson The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw Wheels of Terror by Sven Hassel From Here to Eternity by James Jones A Midnight Clear by William Wharton Four Freedoms by John Crowley The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel The Unknown Soldier by Vaino Linna The Path to the Spiders' Nests by Italo Calvino Doreen by Barbara Noble Henrietta's War by Joyce Dennys