The real story of what came to be known as the Burma Death Railway is far grislier than any movie could make it, and the ways that the prisoners who built it managed to stay alive is a fascinating ...

Jack Jennings was among 60,000 Allied prisoners forced by the Japanese to build a railway between Thailand and Myanmar, then Burma from 1942 ... it became known as the "death railway".

Seventy-five years ago, in June 1942, the Japanese Occupation Army commissioned the construction of the Thai-Burma Railway that later gained its infamous name, the Death Railway.

PORT DICKSON, Nov 11 (Bernama) -- K. Arumugam, the oldest survivor of the infamous ‘Death Railway’, a forced labour project ...

It is a great place to escape from the hustle and bustle of Bangkok. ‘Death Railway’ is the railway track built by the Japanese Army in 1943. The 415 km-long railway line between Bangkok and Rangoon, ...

Jack Jennings, thought to be the last survivor of the infamous Burma Railway ... during the construction and it became known as the "death railway". About 60,000 Allied prisoners of war were ...

The Death Railway line from Ban Pong in Siam (Thailand) to Ye in Burma (Myanmar) was built over 76 years ago by Prisoners of War (PoW) and slave labourers. Besides the Tamils, Chinese and Malays ...

If nothing else, the film sheds light on the rarely told story of the Burma Railway. Completed in approximately one year, it is about 415 kilometers long and connects parts of Thailand and present-day ...

The Death Railway in Kanchanaburi, Thailand is attracting tourists from around the world with its beauty and dark history. Originally built during World War 2 by Allied prisoners of war and ...

A court in Singapore held Lee responsible for the deaths of many POWs by forcing them to work at a construction site for the Thai-Burma Railway, also known as the infamous “Death Railway.” ...