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The Forgotten Highlander

My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

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The Forgotten Highlander

Auteur(s): Alistair Urquhart
Narrateur(s): David Rintoul
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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.

©2010 Alistair Urquhart (P)2025 Hachette Audio UK
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Like that he provides a full view of himself. Despite immense suffering and the betrayal of the British government he moved on with his life

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