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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- Publication Date:
- 14/04/2011
- Authors:
- Urquhart, Alistair
- Year Published:
- 2011
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- Illustrations Note:
- Section: 16, b/w photos
- ISBN:
- 9780349122571
- Number of Pages:
- 320
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Publication Date:
- 14/04/2011
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780349122571