# The Forgotten Highlander

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- Book: [The Forgotten Highlander](https://www.bookquiver.com/alistair-urquhart/the-forgotten-highlander) ([The Forgotten Highlander.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alistair-urquhart/the-forgotten-highlander.md))
- Authors: [Alistair Urquhart](https://www.bookquiver.com/alistair-urquhart), [David Rintoul](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-rintoul)
- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4912-257-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2011-04-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.