the Burma railway
/ðə ˌbɜːmə ˈreɪlweɪ/
/ðə ˌbɜːrmə ˈreɪlweɪ/
- a railway built by the Japanese in Burma during the Second World War. They used prisoners of war to build the railway, and many of them died. The film, Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), is about a group of British prisoners who have to build a bridge for the railway.
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