Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jack Jennings signed up as a private in the 1st Battalion of the Cambridgeshire Regiment to fight in the Second World War A ...

Jack Jennings, a British prisoner of war during World War II who worked as a slave laborer on the Burma Railway, the roughly 250-mile Japanese military construction project that inspired a novel and ...

Jack Jennings, who has died aged 104, spent three and a half years as a Japanese prisoner of war and worked as a slave labourer on the Siam-Burma “Death Railway”; he was thought to be the last ...

The brutal use of British prisoners of war by the Japanese to build a railway linking Thailand to Burma in 1943 was one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War. For the first time in 70 years, ...

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A look at how British prisoners of war were used to build a train track that would eventually link Thailand to Burma during the second world war. Both the surviving Prisoners and the Japanese captors ...