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3 unusual facts about The Bridge over the River Kwai


Burma bridge

The Bridge over the River Kwai, novel about building the Burma railroad bridges, as a fictionalized account

Khwae Yai River

However this is not the same bridge as depicted in The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle and in its film adaptation.

The Bridge over the River Kwai

On a BBC Timewatch programme, a former prisoner at the camp states that it is unlikely that a man like the fictional Nicholson could have risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel; and if he had, he would have been "quietly eliminated" by the other prisoners.


Fredric Warburg

Other notable publications include the controversial The Third Eye by Lobsang Rampa in 1956, Pierre Boulle's classic The Bridge over the River Kwai, Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, and William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960).


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