This is the WZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. Recently caught the film version of The Railway Man starring Colin Firth, and I decided to read the book that the movie was based on a memoir of Eric Lomax, who, during World War II was taken prisoner along with many of his colleagues and forced into slave labor by his Japanese guards. The Japanese looking to build a railway between Burma and Siam,
fighting PTSD for decades. After the war, Eric Lomax remarries and with the help of his new wife, Patty, finds the strength to confront his fears and demons, and it's a story of forgiveness. He discovers that the interpreter present over several years of brutal torture sessions, was still alive. Lomax shares the story of closing a deadly chapter in his life and finding the strength to offer forgiveness to those who perpetrated the evil during the Second World War.
The Railway Man is a serious look at survival and forgiveness. The Railwayman by Eric Lomax The Book Club WZ Boston's news radio