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The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart

The Forgotten Highlander By Alistair Urquhart

The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart


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Summary

* 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

The Forgotten Highlander Summary

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East by Alistair Urquhart

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 sotyr 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.

The Forgotten Highlander Reviews

A book you must read DAILY MAIL Riveting, powerful, moving OBSERVER A remarkable memoir FINANCIAL TIMES

About Alistair Urquhart

Alistair Urquhart is now 90 (and is the last surviving member of the Scottish regiment the Gordon Highlanders) and teaches computer skills to OAPs in Scotland

Additional information

GOR007961881
9781408702123
1408702126
The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East by Alistair Urquhart
Used - Like New
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
2010-03-04
320
Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2011
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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