To End All Wars, Ernest Gordon
To End All Wars, Ernest Gordon
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To End All Wars
A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive

Author: Ernest Gordon

Narrator: Wayne Campbell

Unabridged: 9 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 04/26/2022


Synopsis

Now a major motion picture starring Robert Carlyle and Kiefer Sutherland "Waking from a dream, I suddenly realized where I was: in the Death House--in a prison camp by the River Kwai. I was a prisoner of war, lying among the dead, waiting for the bodies to be carried away so that I might have more room."When Ernest Gordon was twenty-four he was captured by the Japanese and forced, with other British prisoners, to build the notorious "Railroad of Death," where nearly 16,000 prisoners of war gave their life. Faced with the appalling conditions of the prisoners' camp and the brutality of the captors, he survived to become an inspiring example of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds.To End All Wars is Ernest Gordon's gripping true story behind both the Academy Award-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai, starring Alec Guinness, and the new film To End All Wars, directed by David Cunningham.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bev on March 01, 2015

4.5 stars I first read this book when I was in my late teens and at the time I found it truly inspiring and it certainly shaped some of my own philosophy of life, faith and how both should be lived. Ernest Gordon tells of his own experiences starting from the summer of 1939 when he lived a rather car......more

Goodreads review by Jackson on September 01, 2024

I picked up this book at an estate sale not really intent on reading it but I eventually picked it up and I’ve never read a book like it. Not that books like it don’t exist, I’ve just never branched out to this genre before. I was enthralled by the experiences I was reading about. I can barely remem......more

Goodreads review by Bob on June 30, 2011

Through the Valley of the Kwai may be familiar to some people as part of the back story for the book and the movie Bridge over the River Kwai, but if that's your only exposure to this story, you are missing out on the greater nature of what happened. Ernest Gordon was a cynical young man when he......more