Incredible documentary

[HeavyDrinker]

In recent weeks people have been asking about good documentaries about Thailand. The BBC (four) and HLA productions recently broadcast Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain. While nothing new, it's a mix of original footage (Pathe News etc) and first hand accounts from both sides. Superbly cobbled together and a fitting tribute to the incredible men who survived and this horror with no bitterness to this day.

Highly recommended.

[Boycie]

Many thanks HeavyDrinker, just found it on youtube, will watch laters

[jkinbkk]

Yes I thought it had a balanced perspective.

It was interesting hear the distain of the British Tommies interviewed had towards their senior officers and High Command at the time.

Basically then, if the British High Command had taken more seriously the efficiency, determination and resolve of the Japanese to capture Singapore, they could have prepared and trained our regiments accordingly.

That may have halted the embarrassing and unforgivable ease in which Singapore was captured and the ensuing slaughter of allied POW's who then constructed the Death Railway.

I can imagine the pomposity of those High Command chaps, sipping slings in Raffles and dismissing outright the outrageous notion of the Japanese taking Singapore..."Absolute piffle and Humbug old Bean!"