Long Way Back to the River Kwai: Memories of World War II cover

Long Way Back to the River Kwai: Memories of World War II

Author: Velmans, Loet

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.