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

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 ‘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 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.

Format:

Pages:: 321 pages

Publication:: 2010

Publisher:: Hachette Digital

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0748115102

ISBN13:: 9780748115105

kindle Asin:: B004ULMI8W

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

Alistair Urquhart

4.52/5 (3675 ratings)

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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 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.

Format:

Pages:: 321 pages

Publication:: 2010

Publisher:: Hachette Digital

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0748115102

ISBN13:: 9780748115105

kindle Asin:: B004ULMI8W

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