SURVIVAL & SEPARATION ON THE RIVER KWAI: The Ordeal of a Japanese Prisoner of War and His Family

In 1939, Roberts was conscripted into the 1/5 Sherwood Foresters. Captured by the Japanese, he was sent to the Burma-Thai Railway. From 1942 to 1945, he suffered extreme hardship and abuse by his captors. After liberation, Roberts wrote a graphic memoir of his captivity, which was discovered after his death in 2001, along with his wife's letters. Photos.