Return From the River Kwai Author:Joan Blair, Clay Blair Jr. There was indeed a "Bridge on the River Kwai", but the famous novel and the gripping movie about the bridge were wonderful fiction. In reality, no outside attempt was made to destroy the actual bridge, nor was it built willing by an obsessed British colonel. It was built at bayonet point by Allied prisoners of war. This book is the equally stirr... more »ing true account of what happened to those prisoners afterward.« less
This book is an account of what happened to the Allied prisoners after after they were forced at bayonet point to build the famous "Bridge on the River Kwai".It is a marvelous action-survival sea saga.