Pierre Boulle

About

French engineer in Malaya who joined the Free French and was captured and imprisoned in Indochina. The Bridge over the River Kwai was followed by Planet of the Apes.

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The Bridge over the River Kwai 1952 · 224 pages

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge for their Japanese captors — and their colonel builds it too well.

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