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Title: To End All Wars by Ernest Gordon ISBN: 0-00-711848-1 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspiring Account of Perservence over Adversity
Comment: This account of how a young Scot, captured by the Japanese in April, 1942, managed to survive the brutal treatment accorded POWs under Japan's control has endured long after Ernest Gordon's imprisonment ended, and will continue to endure and influence readers for more years to come. This book, originally published over 40 years ago, was one of the sources for the highly popular movie of that era, "Bridge Over the River Kwai," and the more recent "To End All Wars."
Some parts of this book are very difficult to read as Gordon, a Captain in a Scottish regiment, spares no detail as he relates the physical trauma, the diseases, the wretched conditions imposed by their captors and the senseless, sometimes unbelievable treatment by the guards of their captives . How to survive this vertiable hell hole? As he notes, without some sort of discipline and some moral compass for guidance, many men gave up hope and died. But Gordon found within the prison camp two people who selflessly gave of themselves when Gordon was literally at death's door to help restore him to physical health, of people who washed his sores, encouraged, prodded, and inspired. Through the faith of these two, one a Methodist, the other a Roman Catholic, Gordon reinvestigated the New Testament and from that learned and acted out the commandment to "love others", even including the brutal Japanese guards, as he would love himself. Using these simple teachings of love, encouragement, and selfless help to your neighbor, Gordon and others in the various camps were able to overcome the horrific conditions under which they existed. The melding of the spiritual and the discipline of order, neatness, and cooperation saw the POWs triumph over the evil of the system under which they existed.
The first part of the book describing Gordon's efforts to escape--he and others bought a sailing vessel that managed to get them half way to Ceylon--is an exciting read in itself. The second half, the journey into hell and return, is thought provoking and inspiring. It is also difficult for those who served in the Pacific theater, as I did, as to how and if I would have survived if I had had to bail out over Japan and was imprisoned. A sobering thought that one does not want to revisit for long.
Gordon came home to Scotland, entered the ministry, and served for many years as Dean of the Chapel, Princeton University. May he Rest in Peace.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Dramatic, Powerful, and Shocking Book!
Comment: I could not put this book down! If you have any interest in the treatment of Allied soldiers during their stay in Japanese internment camps, just read this book. From the introduction to the final page, this book will shock you, horrify you, but amazingly, it will inspire you and leave you with a good feeling about what Ernest Gordon did and became before he died in 2002. Bless his memory and may this book live on forever!
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Title:To End All Wars ASIN: B00021R7BM Publisher: Fox Home Entertainme Pub. Date: 15 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $20.99 |
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Title: Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing? by Philip Yancey ISBN: 0310252172 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: Through the Valley of the Kwai by Ernest Gordon ISBN: 0313242208 Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 1983 List Price(USD): $38.50 |
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Title: Gift of Pain, The by Paul W. Brand, Philip Yancey, Paul Brand ISBN: 0310221447 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: The Elephant Man : A Study in Human Dignity by Ashley Montagu ISBN: 0925417416 Publisher: Acadian House Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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