In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded Burma (now Myanmar ... and the ways that the prisoners who built it managed to stay alive is a fascinating case study in making ...

One of the most notorious examples was the construction of the Burma or Death ... Russian and American prisoners who entered the Unit 731's camps during World War II were killed while being ...

The railway in question was to run from Ban Pong in Thailand to Thanbyuzayat in Burma (now Myanmar), for ... Asian civilians and 60,000 Allied prisoners-of-war. Mr Jennings found himself in ...