The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival during the War in the Far East

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival during the War in the Far East

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Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed. Nearly everyone else on board died and Urquhart spent 5 days alone on a raft in the South China Sea before being rescued by a whaling ship. He was taken to Japan and then forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later a nuclear bomb dropped just ten miles away . . .This is the extraordinary story of a young men, conscripted at nineteen and whose father was a Somme Veteran, survived not just one, but three close encounters with death - encounters which killed nearly all his comrades.
  • Publisher: Abacus
  • Dimensions: 12.6 x 3 x 19.6 cm
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 320 pages
  • Item weight: 301 g
  • Edition: 1st
  • Book Type: Paperback
  • ISBN-10: 0349122571
  • ISBN-13: 978-0349122571
  • Publication date: 31 May 2011
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