Long Way Back to the River Kwai: Memories of World War II
by Velmans, Loet
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AR Book Level
8.5
AR Points
10
Word Count
55,725
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
76711 EN
About this book
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.