The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Urquhart AlistairPaperback
The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Urquhart AlistairPaperback "Riveting, powerful, moving."--The Observer, "Compelling . . A story of almost unimaginable…
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The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Urquhart AlistairPaperback
"Riveting, powerful, moving."--The Observer, "Compelling . . A story of almost unimaginable suffering." --BBC Radio 4. .A book that must be read."--Daily Mail.
Silent for over fifty years, this is Alistair Urquhart's extraordinary, moving, and inspirational tale of survival against the odds.Alistair Urquhart was among the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore during World War II. "Urquhart grabs our attention with unforgettable stories."--Minneapolis Star-TribuneThis is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at nineteen, who survived not just one but three separate encounters with death--encounters which killed nearly all his comrades. He not only survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious "death railway" and the bridge on the River Kwai, but he was subsequently taken prisoner on one of the
WWII: Battle over the Pacific