Forgotten highlander
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* 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
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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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 14 april 2011
Aantal pagina's: 320
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Alistair Urquhart
Tweede Auteur: Alistair Urquhart
Hoofduitgeverij: Abacus
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 126 mm
Product hoogte: 27 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 123 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 27 mm
Verpakking lengte: 195 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 539 g
EAN: 9780349122571