Let me just begin by saying this is a great book!  It is the true story of Ernest Gordon who spent three years as a POW during WWII.  He was captured by the Japanese and forced with other POWs to build the notorious "Railroad of Death".  Both the academy award winning films The Bridge Over The River Kwai and the film To End All Wars are based on this book.

I had used a remarkable story from this book as an illustration but had never read the book.  I ordered a copy last week.  I received it on Friday and finished it on Monday.  The first 40 pages or so are a little confusing but from that point on I could not put it down.

This is the amazing story of how two men who loved the Lord and their neighbors in the most horrible of living conditions, changed history.  Ernest Gordon was befriended by these men while he was in the Death House in the prison camp waiting to die.I don't want to ruin the story but Gordon who was not a Christ-follower when he enlisted ends the book with this line:

"He (Jesus) comes into our Death House to lead us through it."

Read it.  I am going to list it as one of my all time favorites.