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, ...

Jacob Elordi hit the Berlin Festival on Saturday with Justin Kurzel’s WWII drama The Narrow Road to the Deep North, in which he plays a medical officer in a Japanese prisoner of war camp on the ...

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 ...

Even as a young man, Jack Jennings was something of an expert on wood. He knew his oak from his ash, and his elm from his beech. Since leaving school at 14 he had worked with wood, first on the ...

The Death Railway in Thailand isn’t just a historic site; it’s a poignant reminder of sacrifice, resilience, and a testimony ...

A refurbished visitors centre is reopening at Hellfire Pass in Thailand, giving people a picture of the horrors faced by Allied soldiers forced to work there in WWII Seventy five years ago this year ...

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 ...

The brutal use of British prisoners of war by the Japanese to build a railway linking Thailand to Burma in 1943 was one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War. For the first time in 70 years, ...