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To End All Wars: A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive
By Ernest Gordon
Zondervan | September 26, 2002 | Trade Paperback
Now A Major Motion Picture Starring Robert Carlyle and Kiefer SutherlandæWaking from a dream, I suddenly realized where I was: in the Death Houseûin 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.ÆWhen Ernest Gordon was twenty-four he was captured by the Japanese and forced, with other British prisoners, to build the notorious æRailroad of DeathÆ, where nearly 16,000 Prisoners of War gave their life. Faced with the appalling conditions of the prisonersÆ 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 GordonÆs 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.