The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart

The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart

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.

A book you must read * DAILY MAIL *
Riveting, powerful, moving * OBSERVER *
A remarkable memoir * FINANCIAL TIMES *

Alistair Urquhart is in his nineties (and is the last surviving member of the Scottish regiment the Gordon Highlanders) and teaches computer skills to OAPs in Scotland

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ISBN 13	9780349122571
ISBN 10	0349122571
Title	The Forgotten Highlander
Author	Alistair Urquhart
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2011-04-14
Number of pages	320
Prizes	Short-listed for Independent Booksellers Award 2011 (UK)
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