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Eric Lomax


Born
in Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom
May 30, 1919

Died
October 08, 2012

Genre
Memoir


Lomax was a British Army officer who was sent to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in 1942. He is most famous for writing a book, The Railway Man, on his experience before, during, and after World War II, which won the 1996 NCR Book Award and the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography.

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The Railway Man
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“Remembering is not enough, if it simply hardens hate. Sometimes the hating has to stop.”
― Eric Lomax, The Railway Man
tags: forgiveness
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“physical healing happens so fast; it is the rest that takes time.”
― Eric Lomax, The Railway Man
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“The wounds were not on the surface, nor detectable by stethoscope.”
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