The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
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.
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9780349122571 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Urquhart, Alistair | |
| PUBLISHER : Little, Brown Book Group | PUBLICATION DATE : April 14, 2011 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom | IMPRINT : Abacus |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : General |
| PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback | |
WEIGHT : 300 g
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies