Lucky Johnny [sound recording] : the footballer who survived the River Kwai death camps / Johnny Sherwood and Michael Doe.

Oxford : Soundings Audio Books, 2015.

8 CDs (9 hr.) : digital, stereo

In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career, touring the world with the all-star British team the Islington Corinthians. By 1942 he was a soldier surrendering to the Japanese at the siege of Singapore. Taken prisoner he was sent to a POW camp deep in the heart of the Thai jungle, where he was starved, beaten, and forced to build the notorious 'railway of death' on the River Kwai. Johnny kept his and his men's spirits up with tales of his footballing past, even organising matches until he and the other prisoners became too weak to play. This book tells his story.

9781407956442 (CDs)

B SHE

English

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