Ebook {Epub PDF} The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle

The Bridge Over the River Kwai: A Novel. The Bridge Over the River Kwai.: Pierre Boulle. Ballantine Books, - Fiction - pages. 1 Review. 4/5(1). Pierre Boulle's The Bridge Over the River Kwai is a short parable about the ironies of war. British Colonel Nicholson, taken prisoner by the Japanese, is assigned to construct a railway bridge; after winning a battle of wills with the brutal camp commandant, Colonel Saito, Nicholson begins constructing a bridge better and more efficiently than the Japanese could have done on their own.4/5. Pierre Boulle's The Bridge Over the River Kwai is a short parable about the ironies of war. British Colonel Nicholson, taken prisoner by the Japanese, is assigned to construct a railway bridge; after winning a battle of wills with the brutal camp commandant, Colonel Saito, Nicholson begins constructing a bridge better and more efficiently than the Japanese could have done on their own.4/5.

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He infiltrated Indochina as a guerilla where he was captured in He escaped in , was picked up by a British plane, and served in the Special Forces in Calcutta for the rest of the www.doorway.ru first novel to be published in the United States was The Bridge on the River Kwai. The book was awarded the Prix Sainte-Beuve prize in France, which led to the film version that received an amazing seven Academy Awards. Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle (20 February – 30 January ) was a French novelist best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai () and Planet of the Apes (), that were both made into award-winning films. Boulle was an engineer serving as a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore, when he was captured and subjected to two years' forced labour. Many books have been written about the Death Railway, but this one captures the astonishing feat of Allied soldiers in building the bridge on the River Kwai. Elegantly translated from Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai () by Pierre Boulle, the novel has credible characters, though perhaps does not fully capture the appalling suffering at the hands of the Japanese that can be found in the Narrow Road to the Deep North.