In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded Burma (now Myanmar) and forced an end to British colonial rule there. Occupying Burma required troops and massive amounts of materiel, ...

NAM TOK, Thailand – Wielding a machete, Rod Beattie slashes at tangled undergrowth and soaring bamboo to expose vistas from one of World War II's iconic sagas. Out of the jungle appear remnants of a ...

TOKYO: During World War II, the Japanese military constructed the Thai-Burma Railway connecting Thailand and Burma, now Myanmar. While the section in Thailand has become a tourist destination ...

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 ...

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 ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

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