The wonderful French writer Pierre Boulle is known to most readers as the author of the book “Planet of the Apes,” based on which director Tim Burton made the blockbuster of the same name. However, Boole gained fame with the novel The Bridge on the River Kwai, one of the few books by Western authors about the Asian side of the Second World War.

British soldiers captured by the Japanese and their commander Colonel Nicholson are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai in Burma. Meanwhile, the command sends a special group to destroy this strategically important facility