Eric Lomax

Eric Lomax was a British Army officer who was captured by the Japanese during World War II and forced to work on the Burma Railway. The Railway Man, available as an audiobook and book, is his powerful memoir about his experiences as a prisoner of war, the decades of trauma that followed and his eventual journey towards reconciliation with one of his captors. The book was adapted into a film. Lomax's story of survival and forgiveness has moved millions of readers and listeners.