A warning, before we begin: this adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize winning book is not for the faint of heart.
In the first ten minutes, a man steps on a landmine and dies in the protagonist’s arms. In the rest of the series, we’re plunged into the living hell of the Burmese jungle, where Australian prisoners of war (among many others) labour under the eyes of their Japanese captors to build the infamous ‘railway of death’.
