The real story of what came to be known as the Burma Death Railway is far grislier than any movie could make it, and the ways that the prisoners who built it managed to stay alive is a fascinating ...

The Death Railway in Thailand, also known as the Burma Railway, was built during World War II by the Japanese. It stands as a ...

A veteran believed to be the last surviving Allied prisoner forced to work on the infamous Burma Death Railway has died aged 104. Jack Jennings survived the brutal forced labour on the railway ...

At least 106 skeletal remains (out of 500 initially found) of Tamil labourers and Allied prisoners of war who died during the Second World War building the infamous railway between Thailand and Myanma ...

during the construction of the 415km Thailand-Burma Railway, as it was called then, remains largely unseen. The exact number of deaths during the construction of the railway is unknown ...

Even as a young man, Jack Jennings was something of an expert on wood. He knew his oak from his ash, and his elm from his beech. Since leaving school at 14 he had worked with wood, first on the ...

Jack was taken to Changi prison camp in Singapore but at the beginning of 1943 he was sent to work on the Burma railway, often called the Death Railway. About 12,000 Allied prisoners died during ...

His father, Arch Flanagan, was a survivor of the infamous Thai-Burma Death Railway, built during World War II by Allied prisoners of war under harrowing conditions.