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 ...

A veteran believed to be the last surviving Allied prisoner forced to work on the infamous Burma Death Railway has died aged 104. Jack Jennings survived the brutal forced labour on the railway line, ...

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 ...

Even as a young man, Jack Jennings was something of an expert on wood. He knew his oak from his ash, and his elm from his beech. Since leaving school at 14 he had worked with wood, first on the ...

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, ...

Soe Win’s claims of progress on Beijing-backed transport and economic corridors mask fragmented territorial control and stalled mega-projects.