Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.5
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
55725
Points per Word
0.000179
Page Count
230
Points per Page
0.043478
Description
The author, a Dutchman who escaped the Nazis in 1940, chronicles his three and a half years as a prisoner of war to the Japanese and forced to build a railroad through the jungle on the border of Thailand and Burma.