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 man, conscripted at nineteen and whose father was a Somme Veteran, who survived not just one, but three very close separate encounters with death - encounters which killed nearly all his comrades.

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

Edition -

Author - Alistair Urquhart

ISBN 13 - 9781408702116

Imprint - Little, Brown

Publisher - Little, Brown Book Group

Date Published - 04/03/2010

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No. of pages - 320

Binding Type - Hardback

Dimensions - 164 x 240 x 34mm

Weight - g

Languages - English