To End All Wars

A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive

Ernest Gordon

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9780310340645
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Historical Biographies

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• In Memory of Ernest Gordon
• 1. The Death House
• 2. Soldiers At Sea
• 3. Our Hosts
• 4. The Valley of Death
• 5. Miracle On the River Kwai
• 6. For Thou Art With Me
• 7. Church Without Walls
• 8. Christmas Day, 1943
• 9. On from Chungkai
• 10. The Last Trek
• 11. Through the Valley
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgements