It made me cry, I felt angry at man's inhumanity to man and yet uplifted by the way Eric finally came to terms with the suffering he'd endured and was able to forgive Lesley Pearse, MetroДЄ story worth preserving Iain Campbell, Stornoway GazetteДЄ powerful autobiography that shines a light on a difficult period in history Sally Newall, IndependentД«rutally honest, controlled and understated. Here, I think, is an account that rises above mere timeliness and comes near to being a classic of autobiography Ian Jack, Guardian

This beautiful, awkward book tells the story of a fine and awkward man. A story of courage and survival Daily Record Now is the time to read the true life story of Scot Eric Lomax. This is a harrowing but very honest and ultimately compassionate memoir Herald What a great man Harry Ritchie, Daily Mail Wistfully romantic, historically important, startling, horrifying and ultimately electrifyingly uplifting, The Railway Man is as indispensable as any book can be. Of all the billions of words that have been written about the Second World War, with the exception of Churchill's Nobel Prize winning history, it is not an exaggeration to say there is no account of it more worth reading that this. When I turned to the book, the complexity of Lomax's emotions came alive and burned off the page Independent Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by. He was put to work on the Railway of Death - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. But you'd have to be pretty hard-hearted not to be moved by this tale's final destination, even if the route there is somewhat circuitous.Forget the grueling films, just read the brilliant books Independent A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Considering the clarity of the real-life story, it's surprising how muddled and inert director Jonathan Teplitzky manages to make things, wibbling through complex junctions and shunting into narrative sidings like an oft-disrupted train journey. A naive young man a railway enthusiast and radio buff was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. Hats off, however, to Irvine, whose vocal inflections carefully prefigure those of Firth's older man, drawing the intersecting threads together even as the narrative threatensВ to unravel.

Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1hh94r4r Scanner. It was a bit shock to discover my second husband Eric Lomax, author of the famous book The Railway Man, had been diagnosed with MG. Video An illustration of an audio speaker. My first husband Raymond was in his 60s when he was diagnosed and he had a thymectomy to remove his enlarged thymus gland, procedure was a success and he was able to stop his all medications.

It's not a match made in heaven while the latterday segments make specific reference to Brief Encounter as railroad love blossoms between Eric and Patti (a dowdy Nicole Kidman), the Thailand sequences have an oddly televisual air that somewhat undercuts their dramatic clout. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. This latest retelling, from a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson, wrestles with themes of suffering and redemption as it criss-crosses between Colin Firth's ageingВ Lomax living a purgatorial existence in late 20th- century Britain and Jeremy Irvine's embattled young soldier suffering at the hands of his wartime captors.

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