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Miracle on the River Kwai Paperback – June, 1984


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Product Details

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Tyndale House Pub (June 1984)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0842343563
  • ISBN-13: 978-0842343565
  • Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,315,136 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful By A Customer on August 16, 1999
Format: Paperback
the book "miracle on the river Kwai" is about the tough times in the prison camps of WW2...... even though all these men were suffering, there came a glimmere of hope....people started caring for others, and once again...these men had a will to live, in this book, there are stories f self sacrifice....how men gave up their lives for others... i believe this to be a good book for anyone who is interested in war-type books.....
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful By Patrick Richardson on April 28, 2009
Format: Hardcover
THE BEST EVER EXAMPLES OF CHRISTIANITY APPLIED DURING UNDESERVED SUFFERING demonstrates that when having lost the use of your legs, having lost all your health, being on the verge of death, in dispair, discouraged, alone, when no person cares for your soul you too can be found and siezed by Our Lord Jesus Christ. Exhale faith alone in Christ alone and eternal Hope is born in you, abundant life starts in your mind, a desire to live returns, the mind leaves off of self and self pity, while one learns of He who suffered in our place and why. Hygiene improves, thinking improves, communications improve, health improves and one becomes a benefit to others and teamwork spreads, happiness increases and a thirst for knowledge in all truth, history and sciences grows without end.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful By khrisered on July 14, 2006
Format: Paperback
'Miracle on ther River Kwai' is an honest attempt to confront the major issues in life-namely human mortality and pain . Far from being 'effusive' about religion, Gordon leaves the reader to draw his/her own conclusions about these matters. Gordon is an acute observer of his fellow men especially when they are placed in despairing circumstances. Gordon is no cynical armchair critic but writes from personal experience and in doing so enlightens those of us who cannot imagine the privations that these brave Australian and British soldiers endured. Easily the best book written about WW2.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful By Stephen Foster VINE VOICE on October 28, 2012
Format: Paperback
That survivor was my dad, who in all the time I knew him showed zero interest in any religion. When I came home one day with my usual pile of science-fiction paperbacks, he told me to put them aside and handed me this book. I haven't seen it in 45 years, but I remember it distinctly because it mystified me at the time.

None of the other reviews actually describe the book. It's an account of harsh prison camp life that becomes transformed through what can best be described as an outbreak of early Christianity. Prisoners took to caring for each other, cooking for each other, taking work-shifts for each other even though a single work-shift was an utterly sobering thing that few people could imagine volunteering for even when well-fed and healthy, which none of these people were (at the end of the war, my 6' dad weighed 65 lb).

The environment they were in was bizarre. They barely needed to be guarded, because the encompassing jungle was as dense as it was a nutritional desert: the contemporary book You'll Die In Singapore describes (eventually successful) escapees who survived by hand-assembling enormous piles of termites into a shirt and converting them to pink, nutritious jelly by banging the shirt against a tree-trunk.

They got so good at taking care of each other and somehow nursing nutritious food out of the scraps they were given and the environment around them that the Japanese guards commissioned them to make a turkey dinner for some visiting Japanese dignitaries, even supplying the turkey. The turkey vanished without a trace, replaced by a vulture that the prisoners trapped, and the meal was a great success.
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i payed more for this than any of the 5 books i bought that day(and this a little mass market copy) and feel honored to have read this story of love and devotion towards our fellow man, and even to our brutal enemies...am getting all of Ernest Gordon's books...thank you !!!!
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