To End All Wars: A True Story About the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive

Ernest Gordon

Nov 2013 · HarperChristian + ORM

About this ebook

Now a major motion picture starring Robert Carlyle and Kiefer Sutherland

"Waking from a dream, I suddenly realized where I was: in the Death House--in a prison camp by the River Kwai. I was a prisoner of war, lying among the dead, waiting for the bodies to be carried away so that I might have more room."

When Ernest Gordon was twenty-four he was captured by the Japanese and forced, with other British prisoners, to build the notorious "Railroad of Death," where nearly 16,000 prisoners of war gave their life. Faced with the appalling conditions of the prisoners' camp and the brutality of the captors, he survived to become an inspiring example of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds.

To End All Wars is Ernest Gordon's gripping true story behind both the Academy Award-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai, starring Alec Guinness, and the new film To End All Wars, directed by David Cunningham.

Ratings and reviews

Too much Bible not enough story. It starts well enough, quite exciting and tense but by half way through it turn into a bible class and I found myself skipping whole chapters later in the book. A big let down after such a good start.

Totally different to the film but a very moving story