The forgotten highlander

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Alistair Urquhart was among the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore during World War II. He not only survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious “death railway” and the bridge on the River Kwai, but he was subsequently taken prisoner on one of the Japanese “hellships” which was later torpedoed, killing nearly everyone on board—but not Urquhart. He spent five days adrift on a raft in the South China Sea before being rescued by a Japanese whaling ship. He was then taken to Japan and forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later he was struck by the blast from the atomic bomb—dropped just ten miles away. In late August 1945, now a barely-living skeleton, he was freed by the American Navy and was able to bathe for the first time in three and a half years.

This is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at nineteen, who survived not just one but three separate encounters with death—encounters which killed nearly all his comrades. Silent for over fifty years, this is Urquhart’s extraordinary, moving, and inspirational tale as an ex-POW.

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The Forgotten Highlander

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Captured by the japanese a young scottish soldier survived pow work camps 750 days in the jungle working on the death railway and five days adrift at sea he was recaptured by the japanese to work a mine near nagasaki just before the americans dropped the atomic bomb 1 - 2 weken .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 november 2011

Aantal pagina's: 312

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Alistair Urquhart

Tweede Auteur: Alistair Urquhart

Hoofduitgeverij: Skyhorse Pub Co Inc

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 140 mm

Product hoogte: 25 mm

Product lengte: 210 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 140 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm

Verpakking lengte: 210 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 354 g

EAN: 9781616084073

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