25 MARCH 1989, page 35

Why Were The Japanese So Brutal?

Jon Halliday TO THE RIVER KWAI: TWO JOURNEYS— 1943,1979 by John Stewart Bloomsbury, £13.95, pp.175 W hen the emaciated prisoners who had built the railway on the River Kwai —......

Sicklied O'er With The Pale Cast Of Thought

Philip Glazebrook FIRE DOWN BELOW by William Golding Faber, £11.95, pp.3I3 A n enigmatic lady passenger aboard Mr Golding's leaky three-decker seventy- four (the crippled hulk......