The forgotten highlander : my incredible story of survival during the war in the far east / Alistar Urquhart

By:

Urquhart, Alistar [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Great Britan : Little, Brown, c2010Description: 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:

9781408702116

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

D 805 .U77 2010

Contents:

Introduction -- One -- Will Ye No Come Back Again? -- Two --Jealousy Three --Land of Hope and Glory! -- Four -- Death March -- Five -- Hellfire Pass -- Six -- Bridge on the River Kwai -- Seven --It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie -- Eight -- Sentimental Journey -- Nine --Back from the Dead -- Acknowledgements -- Index

Summary: "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."

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Includes acknowledgement and index.

Introduction -- One -- Will Ye No Come Back Again? -- Two --Jealousy
Three --Land of Hope and Glory! -- Four -- Death March -- Five -- Hellfire Pass -- Six -- Bridge on the River Kwai -- Seven --It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie -- Eight -- Sentimental Journey -- Nine --Back from the Dead -- Acknowledgements -- Index

"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."

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