The Last Secret: Letters to the Railway Man

by Eric Lomax

256 pages, Hardcover

First published March 28, 2002

About the author

Lomax was a British Army officer who was sent to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in 1942. He is most famous for writing a book, The Railway Man, on his experience before, during, and after World War II, which won the 1996 NCR Book Award and the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography.