Eric Lomax (1919–2012)
Auteur de Les larmes du bourreau
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Œuvres de Eric Lomax
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax (1996-06-06) 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Lomax, Eric
- Nom légal
- Lomax, Eric Sutherland
- Date de naissance
- 1919-05-30
- Date de décès
- 2012-10-08
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Joppa, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
Singapore - Professions
- soldier (British Army)
- Courte biographie
- Prisoner of war - captured in Singapore by Japanese, 1942.
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- Œuvres
- 4
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 689
- Popularité
- #36,713
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 27
- ISBN
- 34
- Langues
- 5
The author Eric Lomax suffered horrendous beatings and torture when a map of the railway was discovered in his kit bag. For the next 40 years these men who suffered this abuse tried to go on and live life. This was before people were ever treated for PTSD, or anything else like it. What these men had to deal with is impossible to imagine.
The author is actually rather restrained when detailing the torture and conditions they suffered, the book "The Narrow Road To The Deep North" while being a historical fiction book details the conditions far more vivid than Mr Lomax, the author of this book, does.
The hatred that the author holds towards the Japanese is understandable but after more than 40 years he manages to start to get the kind of medical treatment and therapy he truly has needed all along. At this time he finds out "the interpreter" a Japanese soldier he has particular hatred for, has written a book, and decides he needs to confront him.
As painful as this confrontation will be Mr Lomax goes through with it and finds a way to forgive.
This book also touches albeit lightly on the fact that the Japanese, were never made to own up/pay up for the atrocities they committed in Korea, China, and the building of the Burma railway. The mindset of the emperor and the military, the belief that they were superior to all other people, cultures, and countries and their blind devotion and belief that they would prevail, is another example, of why this portion of WW2 needed to come to an end as soon as possible. The author thankfully does not go into any analysis or give his opinion regarding the use of atomic weapons on Japan.… (plus d'informations)