The Forgotten Highlander : My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East Paperback / softback
by Alistair Urquhart
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:14/04/2011
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- ISBN:9780349122571
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:14/04/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780349122571
