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THE FORGOTTEN HIGHLANDER
MY INCREDIBLE STORY OF SURVIVAL DURING THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST |
| By: |
Alistair Urquhart |
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Hardback |
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£18.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1408702118 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781408702116 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
4 March, 2010 |
| 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 |
| 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 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. |
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Section: 16, b/w photos |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Little, Brown |
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Non-returnable |
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