Santa Claus Is Back in Town is a Christmas song written in 1957 by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men’s construction of a railway bridge for their captors – while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them.