Clifford Kinvig

Clifford Arthur Kinvig (22 November 1934 – 22 February 2017) was senior lecturer in war studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, director of education of the British Army, and a noted military author who debunked some of the myths about the bridge over the River Kwai and the construction of the Burma Railway.

Kinvig was educated at Waterloo Grammar School in Liverpool and subsequently read history at the University of Durham.

[1] After university, Kinvig was commissioned into the Royal Army Educational Corps during his national service.

[1] He was director of education of the British Army[2] and a senior lecturer in war studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

He followed this with his masterwork, River Kwai Railway: Story of the Burma-Siam Railroad, published by Brassey's in 1992, which critically examined the story of the construction of the Burma Railway during the Second World War on which the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) was based.