The Forgotten Highlander
My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
Alistair Urquhart
ISBN: | 9781408702123 |
Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
Published: | 4 March, 2010 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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The Forgotten Highlander
My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
Alistair Urquhart
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 sotyr 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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