A veteran believed to be the last surviving Allied prisoner forced to work on the infamous Burma Death Railway has died aged 104. Jack Jennings survived the brutal forced labour on the railway line, ...

A spectacular show of sound and light is being held in Thailand to pay tribute to the people who died building the Thai-Burma ...

Jack Jennings, a British prisoner of war during World War II who worked as a slave laborer on the Burma Railway, the roughly 250-mile Japanese military construction project that inspired a novel and ...

Even as a young man, Jack Jennings was something of an expert on wood. He knew his oak from his ash, and his elm from his beech. Since leaving school at 14 he had worked with wood, first on the ...

A Victorian book detailing plans to build a railway in Burma that was found in the personal library of Eric Lomax, the Scots army officer who became known as the Railway Man, is being sold along with ...

If people ask which army was the most powerful during World War II, opinions might vary widely. However, if the question is about the most brutal and inhumane army, many people in Asia would give the ...

In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded Burma (now Myanmar) and forced an end to British colonial rule there. Occupying Burma required troops and massive amounts of materiel, ...

A train carrying petrol derailed in northern Burma on Friday, triggering a massive blaze that killed 25 people and wounded dozens more, the government said. Two petrol tankers loaded onto the train ...