To End All Wars: A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive, Paperback

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Now A Major Motion Picture Starring Robert Carlyle and Kiefer Sutherland 'Waking from a dream, I suddenly realized where I was: in the Death House-in a prison camp by the River Kwai. I was a prisoner of war, lying among the dead, waiting for the bodies to be carried away so that I might have more room.' 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', where nearly 16, 000 Prisoners of War gave their life. 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. To End All Wars is Ernest Gordon's gripping true story behind both the Academy Award-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai starring Alec Guinness and the new film To End All Wars directed by David Cunningham.

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Ernest Gordon
ofițer în Armata Britanică (1916–2002)

Ernest Gordon a fost fostul decan al capelii presbiteriene de la Universitatea Princeton. Născut în Greenock, Scoția, și fiul lui James Gordon și Sarah R. MacMillan, ca ofițer în Regimentul Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Gordon a petrecut trei ani într-un lagăr de prizonieri de război (POW) japonez în timpul celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial.

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