![]() ![]() Colonel Saito is beside himself with impotent rage, knowing that his own job, and possibly his own life, is on the line if the bridge should be a failure. His men, fiercely proud of their leader’s moxie, systematically sabotage all attempts to begin the bridge. ![]() Nicholson is beaten savagely and thrown into a tiny, baking-hot prison cell. Saito that his job, and the job of his officers, is to lead the men and to keep them focused on a task, and that the Geneva Convention rules state as much – officers are not required to do menial labor. Nicholson and his officers to do menial labor alongside the other soldiers.Ĭol. Saito has no intention of abiding by the rules of conduct laid out in the Geneva Convention, and he orders Col. Nicholson and his regiment have been ordered to surrender to the Japanese, who plan to have the prisoners construct a bridge that will connect Bangkok to Rangoon. Colonel Saito, in the other hand, is a mercurial and violent man, given to fits of deadly rage – but is himself a pawn in the plans of his superior officers. ![]() Colonel Nicholson, an even-tempered British leader of the old school, will not ever let go the basic tenets of gentlemen’s rules of conduct in war. ![]() Despite the fact that this reviewer could not rid herself of a constant mental repetition of “The Colonel Bogey March” while reading this book, it is a truly engaging, if staggeringly frustrating, tale. ![]()
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