The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East (Abridged)

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East (Abridged)

by Alistair Urquhart

Narrated by David David Rintoul

Abridged — 3 hours, 14 minutes

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East (Abridged)

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East (Abridged)

by Alistair Urquhart

Narrated by David David Rintoul

Abridged — 3 hours, 14 minutes

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Overview

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.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940169223200
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date: 03/04/2010
Edition description: Abridged
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