The Bridge over the River Kwai is a novel by the French novelist Pierre Boulle, published in French in 1952 and English translation by Xan Fielding in 1954. The story is historical fiction, with the c
First edition (French)
Khwae Yai River
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The Khwae Yai River, also known as the Si Sawat, is a river in western Thailand. It has its source in the Tenasserim Hills and flows for about 380 kilometres through Sangkhla Buri, Si Sawat, and Muean
The Bridge over the River Kwai
…Prix Sainte-Beuve in 1952. The largely fictitious plot is based on the building in 1942 of one of the railway bridges over the Mae Klong river—renamed Khwae Yai in the 1960s—at a place called Tha Ma Kham, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the Thai town of Kanchanaburi. According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission…
The bridge of the Burma Railway crosses the river at the town of Kanchanaburi.
Portion of the Khwae Yai river after the bridge showing a boat heading upstream towards the bridge