The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
of Alistair Urquhart
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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 âhellshipsâ 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 man, conscripted at nineteen and whose father was a Somme Veteran, who survived not just one, but three very close separate encounters with death - encounters which killed nearly all his comrades.
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- Format E-book
- Pages 321 pages
- Publisher Hachette Digital
- Publication Date March 4th 2010
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN B00371V8ZU
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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