A veteran believed to be the last surviving Allied prisoner forced to work on the infamous Burma Death Railway has died aged 104. Jack Jennings survived the brutal forced labour on the railway line, ...

Faced with an order that threatened the lives of sick men, their commander led them in a quintessential Australian response.

Jack Jennings, a British prisoner of war during World War II who worked as a slave laborer on the Burma Railway, the roughly 250-mile Japanese military construction project that inspired a novel and ...

Richard Flanagan’s book The Narrow Road to the Deep North isn’t a light read. Published in 2013, it won the Booker Prize for its depiction of its hero, Dorrigo Evans’, struggles in Burma during the ...

Jungle war veteran Len Gibson has died aged 101 – just days before the launch of a book detailing his remarkable life. Len, from Sunderland, endured three and a half nightmare years of forced labour, ...

HAMILTON, Ohio — Sitting in a Dutch hospital in Java during World War II, Marvin Sizemore watched as the USS Houston sailed out of port, leaving him behind. “They got word there was a Japanese battle ...

FremantleMedia Australia is producing a drama series based on Richard Flanagan's novel that is set against the backdrop of WWII's horrific Thai-Burma Railway. By Pip Bulbeck FremantleMedia Australia ...