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 ...

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

By Philippa Tracy Australian writer Richard Flanagan’s book won the Booker Prize in 2014 and was this summer screened as five ...

Jacob Elordi's new series The Narrow Road to the Deep North is not a true story, but it is inspired by one. The five-part BBC drama explores the events of the Second World War and the experiences of ...

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 ...

It’s a highly unusual, potentially torturous position: to be left wondering if a character depicted to millions via brilliant ...

A look at how British prisoners of war were used to build a train track that would eventually link Thailand to Burma during the second world war. Both the surviving Prisoners and the Japanese captors ...

Over the weekend the BBC quietly dropped a new historical drama series The Narrow Road to The Deep North and it's going straight to the top of our watchlist. Set over various timelines and featuring ...

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, ...