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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994.     Subjects     World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Fiction.     Prisoners of war -- Fiction.     Bridges -- Design and construction -- Fiction.     Burma -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994.       by title:      The bridge over the ...       by call number:      FICTION BOU     Search the Web     Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Fiction.     Prisoners of war -- Fiction.     Bridges -- Design and construction -- Fiction.     Burma -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The bridge over the river Kwai / Pierre Boulle ; translated from the French by Xan Fielding. by Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994. Vanguard Press, 1954. Call #: FICTION BOU Subjects World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Fiction.   Prisoners of war -- Fiction.   Bridges -- Design and construction -- Fiction.   Burma -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780891419136 (2007 Presidio Press trade pbk.) Alternate title:  Bridge on the River Kwai Description:  1 v. (various pagings). Summary:  1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one prisoner, Colonel Nicholson, a proud perfectionist. Pitted against the warden, Colonel Saito, Nicholson will nevertheless, out of a distorted sense of duty, aid his enemy. While on the outside, as the Allies race to destroy the bridge, Nicholson must decide which will be the first casualty: his patriotism or his pride. Genre:  French fiction -- Translations into English. Historical fiction. Adventure fiction. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION BOU Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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