This is the story of innocence betrayed, of passion and curiosity about the world of machines turned nightmarish and punished by the cruelty of which only humans are capable. It is also a story of survival and courage. Eric Lomax was tortured by the Japanese on the Burma-Siam Railway. Fifty years later he met one of his tormentors.
Eric Lomax was born in 1919. During the Second World War he was captured and tortured by the Japanese Army. He met and forgave his torturer in 1995. He died in October 2012.