The Forgotten Highlander - My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East, Nominiert: Independent Booksellers Award 2011
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| Verlag | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Auflage | 2011 |
| Seiten | 320 |
| Format | 19,9 cm |
| Gewicht | 288 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0349122571 |
| EAN | 9780349122571 |
| Bestell-Nr | 34912257EA |
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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