Who Is Pierre Boulle's The Bridge Over The River Kwai

The Bridge Over the River Kwai was written by Pierre Boulle, a French novelist well-known for another novel, Planet of the Apes. This book is set in Thailand during World War II, and tells the tale of a Japanese POW camp made mostly of British soldiers. The main characters are the determined Colonel Nicholson; Clipton, who was in charge of the medical tent; Saito, the Japanese officer in charge of the prison camp, and Captain Reeves, the engineer in charge of building the bridge.

Tired and gloomy, the prisoners grow restless in the prison camp. Suddenly, the commanding Japanese officer, Colonel Saito, receives word that he is to build a rail-way bridge over the River Kwai. Colonel Nicholson takes this order as a sort of challenge to keep