![]() ![]() Toosey was the Colonel of the British Army’s 135 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. ![]() Julie Summer’s book, The Colonel of Tamarkan: Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai aims to set this record straight. “I have never ceased to object to the way in which the cinematic legend has overtaken and obscured the facts of what really happened on the Burma-Siam railway,” wrote the former prisoner of war John Sharp. Lean’s offering further distorted the building of the infamous Death Railway. The screenplay was adapted from Frenchman Pierre Boulle’s novel The Bridge Over The River Kwai, which blended fact and fiction in an attempt to portray the futility of war. However, the true history of what really happened during the building of the bridge over the River Kwai has almost been erased by the popularity of the movie. Thanks to the film, the Bridge, situated in the Thai town of Kanchanaburi a couple of hours drive from Bangkok, is one of Thailand’s most popular tourist attractions. ![]() The Bridge On The River Kwai is famous in Thailand thanks to the David Lean movie of the same name – but the real story of what happened the building of the bridge during World War II is far different from what’s depicted in the filmĭavid Lean’s classic 1957 World War II movie Bridge on the River Kwai depicted the horrors endured by the Allied prisoners of war (POWs) forced to build the Thailand-Burma railway by the Japanese Imperial Army. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |