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

Author(s): Urquhart, Alistair
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 14/04/2011,
Pagination: 320 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780349122571,
Description:

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.