| The Forgotten Highlander. - Alistair Urquhart |
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The author 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. He spent five 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 10 miles away. This is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at 19. |
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