Kanchanaburi,The Float House River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Last Man Out: Surviving the Burma-Thailand Death Railway: A Memoir by H. Robert Charles et al.   Learn more

From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai."