Title:
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THE FORGOTTEN HIGHLANDER
MY INCREDIBLE STORY OF SURVIVAL DURING THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST |
By: |
Alastair Urquhart, David Rintoul |
Format: |
Downloadable audio file |
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£14.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1405507667 |
ISBN 13: |
9781405507660 |
Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
Pub. date: |
4 March, 2010 |
Edition: |
Abridged edition |
Pages: |
176 |
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 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. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Hachette Audio |
Prizes: |
Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |