The Bridge on the River Kwai - Boulle, Pierre

4th printing; Clean, tight, unmarked; age tanned; very light edge wear; a couple of very light creases to covers; colours bright - unfaded; otherwise minimal wear; appears unread; front of cover has picture of Shears hiding in the grass looking at a soldiers with the train bridge in the background; back of cover is an ad for the movie; 35 cent price on front cover; One of the finest war novels ever written, Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer; Commander Shears, who escaped from hell but was ordered back. Ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge, the Colonel refuses, as it is against regulations for officers to work with other ranks. The Japanese give way but, to prove a point of British superiority, construction of the bridge goes ahead - at great cost to the men under Nicholson's command.
Very Good
Mass Market Paperback
Fontana Books
4th Printing
1958
London, UK