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Set in a Japanese prison camp on the Burma-Siam railway, tells of Colonel Nicolson and his men who are ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge over the River Kwai.

Records the efforts of six hundred British and American officers to escape from a Nazi prison camp.

Anthology of short stories written by authors in their regional languages as well as those in English.

Robin Cook is the author -- and Coma is the book -- for which the term medical thriller was first used. It's a spine-chilling shocker about a crime beyond imagining and the committed young medical student who brings it to light.The surgery was ...

As the Allied armies prepare for D-Day, "Der Nadel," Hitler's handpicked agent, attempts to escape London with the secret that will bring the Allies down

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