The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781405565592
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780349122571
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Date of Addition:
- 02/20/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Alistair Urquhart
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Narrated By:
- David David Rintoul
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.