Building Burma’s Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain

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 years, British POWs and their Japanese captors, many now in their nineties, open their hearts to tell the story of what really happened on the ‘Death Railway’. Alongside the extraordinary experiences and stories of survival told by the British, …