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The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East - Softcover
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 is in his nineties (and is the last surviving member of the Scottish regiment the Gordon Highlanders) and teaches computer skills to OAPs in Scotland
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A remarkable memoir * FINANCIAL TIMES * Riveting, powerful, moving * OBSERVER * A book you must read * DAILY MAIL *
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- PublisherLITTLE, BROWN
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1408702126
- ISBN 13 9781408702123
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages312
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