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Chapters (40)
  1. FOREWORD
  2. RAILROAD OF DEATH
  3. REFERENCE LIST:
  4. Railroad of Death
  5. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION (1948)
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. PART ONE: SINGAPORE
  8. CHAPTER 1
  9. CHAPTER 2
  10. CHAPTER 3
  11. CHAPTER 4
  12. CHAPTER 5
  13. PART TWO: RAILROAD OF DEATH
  14. CHAPTER 6
  15. CHAPTER 7
  16. CHAPTER 8
  17. CHAPTER 9
  18. CHAPTER 10
  19. CHAPTER 11
  20. CHAPTER 12
  21. CHAPTER 13
  22. PART THREE: BASE CAMPS AND LIBERATION
  23. CHAPTER 14
  24. CHAPTER 15
  25. CHAPTER 16
  26. CHAPTER 17
  27. CHAPTER 18
  28. CHAPTER 19
  29. CHAPTER 20
  30. APPENDIX ONE:
  31. APPENDIX TWO:
  32. APPENDIX THREE:
  33. APPENDIX FOUR:
  34. APPENDIX FIVE:
  35. APPENDIX SIX:
  36. APPENDIX SEVEN:
  37. APPENDIX EIGHT:
  38. APPENDIX NINE:
  39. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  40. And The Dawn Came Up Like Thunder

2 A photograph of the kind of jars/tins used by many prisoners to bury their diaries and manuscripts can be found in Brian MacArthur (2005). MacArthur notes that the picture shows the jars following their retrieval eighteen months after the war’s end.

3 For John’s involvement with Captain Pitt-Rivers see Captain Pitt Rivers: ‘A Dorset Campaign, Why the Scheme is opposed, Captain Pitt-Rivers and the Reasons’, The Western Gazette, February 3, 1939 and John Coast ‘Billeting’, The Western Gazette, March 3, 1939.

REFERENCE LIST:

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Attenborough, D. BBC Written Archives Centre T56/203/1, Letter to John Coast, (15 April 1969)
Boulle, P 2002, Bridge Over the River Kwai. Vintage edition: London
Coast, J. ‘Billeting’, letter to The Western Gazette (March 3, 1939).
— M.I.9 POW Questionnaire, 1945. National Archives (TNA), WO344/369/2
— 1946, Railroad of Death. Hyperion Press: London.
— 1947, Unpublished memoir for return to Kwai
— Anonymous letter to The Times, “Japanese War Criminals” (4 January 1947).
— 1952, Recruit to Revolution: Christophers. London
— 1954, Dancing out of Bali. Faber & Faber. London.
— Unpublished novel Bachelor in Bangkok
— BBC Written Archives Centre T56/203/1, Treatment for Return to the River Kwai, 1967/8: 26
— BBC Written Archives Centre T56/203/1, Letter to Cawston, (14 March 1968)
— BBC Written Archives Centre T56/203/1, Letter to Nagase Takashi (26 September 1968).
— One Pair of Eyes: Return to the River Kwai, Documentary, BBC, United Kingdom, 15 March 1969
— ‘Return to the River Kwai’, Argosy, October 1969, volume 369, number 4.
— 1988, Crazy Ideas. Unpublished memoirs.
Finlason, M.
Forde, D. 1998, A Stick called Will. Seaview Press: Henley Beach, South Australia
Jackson, M. ‘Back to the Kwai with a Whitewash’, Daily Express, 15 March 1969
Kermode, F. Ian Watt, 2000, Ian Watt. Essays on Conrad. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. Foreword by Frank Kermode
Kinvig, C. 2005, River Kwai Railway: The Story of the Burma-Siam Railroad. Conway Maritime Press Ltd: London
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MacArthur, A. 2005, Surviving the Sword. Time Warner. London
Nagase, T. BBC Written Archives Centre T56/203/1, Nagase Takase, Letter (11th October 1968)
Pitt Rivers, G. ‘A Dorset Campaign, Why the Scheme is opposed, Captain Pitt-Rivers and the Reasons’, The Western Gazette, February 3, 1939
Richardson, J.R. Undated transcript, IWM Documents 1705, Private Papers of Lieutenant J.R. Richardson
Summers, J. 2006, The Colonel of Tamarkan: Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai. Pocket Books: London
Toosey, P. BBC Written Archives Centre T56/203/1: Philip Toosey letter to Anthony de Lotbiniere (3 September 1968)
Van Thal, D. Dennis Van Thal letter to Anthony de Lotbiniere (10 September 1968).
Watt, I.P. 2000, Essays on Conrad. Cambridge University Press ‘The Bridge over the River Kwai’ as myth, pp. 192-207
— 2002, ‘The Humanities on the River Kwai’ in Bruce Thompson ed. Ian Watt: The Literal Imagination, Selected Essays. University of Washington Press
— 1956, ‘The Liberty of the Prison’, The Yale Review, Vol. 44, pp. 514-532
Williamson, H. 1986, The Story of A Norfolk Farm. Clive Holloway Books: London
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