Index | Next Record | Browse
For Pricing and Availability Click Here

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East ISBN: 0349122571 ISBN13: 9780349122571 The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East By: Alistair Urquhart Publisher: Abacus Format: Paperback Our Price: 7.27 Discount: 9% RRP: 7.99

  Table of contents:

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.


Brief Description:

* 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

For Pricing and Availability Click Here

Static Book Details Page - Click Here to go to BookFellas Book Store Home Page