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

Name: The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
Brand: Abacus
SKU: 9780349122571
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The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

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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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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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Anul publicarii	2011
ISBN	9780349122571
Format coperta	Paperback
Numar pagini	320
Limba	Engleză
Autor	Alistair Urquhart
De aceeasi editura	ABACUS
DS	D/1#MEGA/1
Goodreads	https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780349122571
Dimensiuni	Height: 7.71652 Inches, Length: 4.96062 Inches, Weight: 0.661386786 Pounds, Width: 1.1811 Inches