The bridge over the River Kwai / by Pierre Boulle ; translated by Xan Fielding.

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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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Pont de la rivière Kwaï. English
Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
Main Author: Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994
Other Authors: Fielding, Xan (Translator)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Published: New York : Vanguard Press, [1954]
Series:Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
Subjects:
Burma-Siam Railroad > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Thailand > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese > Fiction.
Prisoners of war > Great Britain > Fiction.
Prisoners of war > Thailand > Fiction.
Thailand > Fiction.
War fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
War fiction.
Local Note:
MSU: Copy 2 gift of Jack and Susan Davis.
MSU: Copy 2 in dust jacket.
Physical Description:224 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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