THE FORGOTTEN HIGHLANDER by Alistair Urquhart ( 9780349122571 )

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Title:

THE FORGOTTEN HIGHLANDER
MY INCREDIBLE STORY OF SURVIVAL DURING THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST

By:

Alistair Urquhart

Format:

Paperback

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£12.99

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£9.48

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£3.51

ISBN 10:

0349122571

ISBN 13:

9780349122571

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Publisher:

LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP

Pub. date:

1 April, 2011

Pages:

320

Description:

* An extraordinary and moving tale by an ex-POW and last surviving member of the Gordon Highlanders regiment that was captured by the Japanese in Singapore, out now in paperback

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.

Illustrations:

Section: 16, b/w photos

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Imprint:

Abacus

Prizes:

Short-listed for Independent Booksellers Award 2011 (UK)

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Returnable

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