The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East - Rilegato

Urquhart, Alistair

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ISBN 10: 1408702118 ISBN 13: 9781408702116

Casa editrice: Little, Brown, 2010

Riassunto

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 man, conscripted at nineteen and whose father was a Somme Veteran, who survived not just one, but three very close separate encounters with death - encounters which killed nearly all his comrades.

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Recensione:

A book you must read (DAILY MAIL)

Riveting, powerful, moving (OBSERVER)

A remarkable memoir (FINANCIAL TIMES)

Descrizione del libro:

* 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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Little, Brown
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1408702118
• ISBN 13: 9781408702116
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320