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 ...

Tysoe said his maternal grandfather was mobilized by the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army to build the Thai-Burma railway, also known as the "Death Railway." More than 10,000 POWs are said to ...

When Singapore fell in 1942 during in WWII to the advancing Japanese ... British and allied POWs endured the hardship of the death Thai-Burma Railway before ending the war as a forced labourer ...