The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness

for

Elizabeth Sutherland Lomax (1877-1942)

and her grandchildren, Linda, Eric and Charmaine, who never knew the story.

This book owes an immeasurable debt to the creativity and skill of Neil Belton. His invaluable contribution to the final text far exceeded the usual relationship between author and publisher. It is true to say that without his help I would not have been able to give final form to so much that I have reflected on for the past fifty years.

I am alive, and was dead… Write therefore the things which thou hast seen.

Revelation, I, w. 18-19