In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded Burma (now Myanmar) and forced an end to British colonial rule there. Occupying Burma required troops and massive amounts of materiel, ...

A veteran believed to be the last surviving Allied prisoner forced to work on the infamous Burma Death Railway has died aged 104. Jack Jennings survived the brutal forced labour on the railway line, ...

Jack Jennings, a British prisoner of war during World War II who worked as a slave laborer on the Burma Railway, the roughly 250-mile Japanese military construction project that inspired a novel and ...

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If people ask which army was the most powerful during World War II, opinions might vary widely. However, if the question is about the most brutal and inhumane army, many people in Asia would give the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The Burma-Thailand railway is so notorious for the loss of life that accompanied its construction, it's ...

THE infamous Death Railway between Thailand and Burma, where 100,00 Asian slave labourers and 16,000 allied POWs died at the hands of the Japanese in the Second World War, is to be rebuilt, the Thai ...