FIRST EDITION. Hardcover in DJ in Good Condition
In 1954 the french writer Pierre Boulle published a novel, The Bridge over the River Kwai,which was later made into a tremendously successful film, The Bridge on the Kwai. These were fictionalized accounts of the horrors endured by Allied prisoners of war who were enslaved to build a bridge for a Japanese railway running through the jungles of Burma and Thailand. In the climax of the novel, a commando team attempts, unsuccessfully, to blow up the bridge. In the film the team succeeds. This, of course, was purely imaginary.