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Title: THE FORGOTTEN HIGHLANDER
MY INCREDIBLE STORY OF SURVIVAL DURING THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST
By: Alastair Urquhart, David Rintoul
Format: Downloadable audio file

List price: £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
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