Alistair Urquhart

The Forgotten Highlander (eBook, ePUB)

My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748115105
• Artikelnr.: 39210106

Autorenporträt

Alistair Urquhart is in his nineties (and is the last surviving member of the Scottish regiment the Gordon Highlanders) and teaches computer skills to OAPs in Scotland

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