# Survivor on the River Kwai

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- Book: [Survivor on the River Kwai](https://www.bookquiver.com/reg-twigg/survivor-on-the-river-kwai) ([Survivor on the River Kwai.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/reg-twigg/survivor-on-the-river-kwai.md))
- Authors: [Reg Twigg](https://www.bookquiver.com/reg-twigg)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-511-5
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2014-03-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Reg Twigg was one of the last men standing from a forgotten war. Called up in 1940, found himself caught up in the worst military defeat in modern British history - the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. What followed were three years of hell, building the infamous Burma railway for the all-conquering Japanese Imperial Army. Yet Reg decided he would do everything to survive. With an ingenuity that is astonishing Reg made the deadly jungle - with its malaria, cholera, swollen rivers, lethal snakes and exhausting heat - work for him. Reg's story is unique.