Gordon, Ernest, 1916-2002

LC control no.	n 50034999
Personal name heading	Gordon, Ernest, 1916-2002 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Found in	A living faith for today, 1956. Miracle on the River Kwai, 1963: t.p. (Ernest Gordon) To end all wars WWW Home page, Dec. 18, 2002: Press releases, biographies (Ernest Gordon - author of Miracle on the River Kwai; d. Jan. 16, 2002 at the age of 85) Obituary - New York Times, Jan. 20, 2002 (Rev. Ernest Gordon of Princeton University died early Wed.; b. Greenock, Scotland, May 31, 1916) Wikipedia, Nov. 19, 2009 (Ernest Gordon (1917-16 January 2002) was the former Presbyterian dean of the chapel at Princeton University. A native of Scotland, as an officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Gordon spent three years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during the Second World War. He chronicled his experiences on the Death Railway in his book Through the Valley of the Kwai. The book served as an inspiration to the film To End All Wars which opened in 2001. )