{"product_id":"9780349122571","title":"The Forgotten Highlander : My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Urquhart, Alistair \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 14\/04\/2011,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages, Section: 16, b\/w photos,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780349122571,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlistair 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697852055596,"sku":"9780349122571","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780349122571.jpg?v=1722604332","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780349122571","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}