Description
| Product ID: | 9780349122571 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Forgotten Highlander |
| Subtitle: | My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East |
| Authors: | Author: Alistair Urquhart |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Asian history, History, Second World War, Prisoners of war, Asian history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, Prisoners of war, Singapore, Japan, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating * 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 . . . |
| Imprint Name: | Abacus |
| Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-04-14 |