The Bridge Where Two Old Enemies Wept

In 1943, British officer Eric Lomax was captured by the Japanese army and forced to labor on the Burma-Thailand railway. When his captors discovered he had built a secret radio, they tortured him mercilessly — waterboarding, beatings, broken bones. A young Japanese interpreter named Takashi Nagase stood by during the interrogations, translating Lomax's screams into military intelligence. For fifty years, Lomax lived imprisoned by rage.…