Urquhart, Alistair – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:22:38 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Urquhart, Alistair – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Forgotten Highlander https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/forgotten-highlander/ Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/forgotten-highlander/ 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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