The Forgotten Highlander

Zusatztext A remarkable memoir Informationen zum Autor Alistair Urquhart Klappentext 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.* 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, out now in paperback Zusammenfassung * 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, out now in paperback

Product details

• Authors: Alistair Urquhart, Urquhart Alistair
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.04.2011
• EAN: 9780349122571
• ISBN: 978-0-349-12257-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 30 mm
• Series: ABACUS
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Japan, HISTORY / Military / General, Memoirs, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Singapore, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Prisoners of War, Asian History, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs