The novel that started it all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_over_the_River_Kwai The Bridge over the River Kwae (French: Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï) is a novel by the Frenchman Pierre Boulle, published in French in 1952 (th English version in 1954) [1]. The story is fictional but uses the construction of the Burma Railway, in 1942–1943, as its historical setting, and is … Continue reading 1.1 The Novel