This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as a man grows up, finds success, only to discover all that he has lost. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle's young wife that took place two years earlier. As he struggles to save the men under his command from hunger, cholera, and beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. An unforgettable story of men at war. This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war—each a passionate plea to prevent its recurrence.