The Bridge Over The River Kwai

Plot

Duty versus Honor
When Colonel Nicholson's Japanese captors ordered him to build a strategic assault bridge in Southeast Asia, the Colonel's code of military honor left him no choice but to obey. Though they were all sick and wounded, he set his men to work, toiling in the jungle heat. He intended to complete a perfect bridge in record time - even though his Imperial Majesty's Army would use it for the invasion of India.

Meanwhile, halfway across the continent, "Force 316" of British Intelligence was already plotting how to blow up the bridge.

Pierre Boulle tells the story of Colonel Nicholson, brilliant officer, disciplinarian, perfectionist, whose passion for duty led him to perform an almost impossible feat of military genius for the Japanese Army he hated.