To End All Wars: A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive

by Ernest Gordon

Overview

Now a major motion picture starring Robert Carlyle and Kiefer Sutherland

"Waking from a dream, I suddenly realized where I was: in the Death House—in 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."

When Ernest Gordon was twenty-four he was captured by the Japanese and forced, with other British prisoners, to build the notorious "Railroad of Death," where nearly 16,000 prisoners of war gave their life. Faced with the appalling conditions of the prisoners' 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 Gordon's 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780007118489
Publisher:	Zondervan
Publication date:	06/03/2002
Pages:	248
Sales rank:	425,942
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.56(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

	Introduction	iv
	In Memory of Ernest Gordon	viii
1	The Death House	1
2	Soldiers at Sea	10
3	Our Hosts	48
4	The Valley of Death	62
5	Miracle on the River Kwai	83
6	For Thou Art With Me	111
7	Church Without Walls	152
8	Christmas Day, 1943	157
9	On from Chungkai	165
10	The Last Trek	191
11	Through the Valley	209
	Epilogue	216
	Acknowledgements	232