ABSTRACT

Eric Lomax (1996) was a British soldier in World War II who had the misfortune of being captured in Burma. His Japanese captors forced him to work on the Burma-Thailand railway through the jungle. Few survived that experience. During Lomax's internment, the prisoners were mistreated. At one point, Lomax was part of a small rebellion. He was interrogated. The interrogator used physical punishment for Lomax's noncooperation. Strangely, it was not the interrogator that Lomax focused on. It was the translator, a small Japanese man who reacted with almost no emotion regardless of what was said or done to Lomax.