The Forgotten Highlander : My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East EPUB
by 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 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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- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:04/03/2010
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- ISBN:9780748115105
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:04/03/2010
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- ISBN:9780748115105