To End All Wars

A True Story About the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive

De: Ernest Gordon

Narrado por: Wayne Campbell

Now a major motion picture starring Robert Carlyle and Kiefer Sutherland.

"Waking from a dream, I suddenly realized where I was: in the Death House—in a prison camp by the River Kwai. I was a prisoner of war, lying among the dead, waiting for the bodies to be carried away so that I might have more room."

When Ernest Gordon was 24 he was captured by the Japanese and forced, with other British prisoners, to build the notorious "Railroad of Death", where nearly 16,000 prisoners of war gave their life. Faced with the appalling conditions of the prisoners' camp and the brutality of the captors, he survived to become an inspiring example of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds.

To End All Wars is Ernest Gordon's gripping true story behind both the Academy Award-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai, starring Alec Guinness, and the new film To End All Wars, directed by David Cunningham.

©1962 Ernest Gordon (P)2022 Zondervan

Stunning story of Christian conversion and courage

This is the best narrative exposition of the premise found in the Arbinger Institute’s book “The Anatomy of Peace” I’ve ever read. Wars are never between two people. War and contention are internal. What we call war is simply the manifestation of internal war between two or more people who are at war within themselves.

This book demands deep introspection for those of us who have never been immersed in the type of hell these POW’s were, yet they rose above their circumstances. These skipped the fist two levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and reached self-actualization. Christ was their catalyst, their fuel, their reward.

Fantastic book

A fantastic and engaging experience that retells the story of Ernest Gordon’s time in the slave labor camps in the SE Asia continent during WW2.

Excellent

This is a well written memoir, full of intrigue and thought provoking comments regarding forgiveness, loving an enemy, doing good to your neighbor…definitely worth reading. Just a few editing errors, but not hardly worth mentioning….