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Alistair Urquhart

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Description:Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious OC Death RailwayOCO and building the Bridge on the River Kwai. Subsequently, he moved to work on a Japanese OC hellship, OCO his ship was torpedoed, and nearly everyone on board the ship died. Not Urquhart. After five days adrift on a raft in the South China Sea, he was rescued by a Japanese whaling ship. His luck would only get worse as he was taken to Japan and forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later, he was just ten miles from ground zero when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. In late August 1945, he was freed by the American NavyOCoa living skeletonOCoand had his first wash in three and a half years. This is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at nineteen, who survived not just one, but three encounters with death, any of which should have probably killed him. Silent for over fifty years, this is UrquhartOCOs inspirational tale in his own words. It is as moving as any memoir and as exciting as any great war movie.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific. To get started finding The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious OC Death RailwayOCO and building the Bridge on the River Kwai. Subsequently, he moved to work on a Japanese OC hellship, OCO his ship was torpedoed, and nearly everyone on board the ship died. Not Urquhart. After five days adrift on a raft in the South China Sea, he was rescued by a Japanese whaling ship. His luck would only get worse as he was taken to Japan and forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later, he was just ten miles from ground zero when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. In late August 1945, he was freed by the American NavyOCoa living skeletonOCoand had his first wash in three and a half years. This is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at nineteen, who survived not just one, but three encounters with death, any of which should have probably killed him. Silent for over fifty years, this is UrquhartOCOs inspirational tale in his own words. It is as moving as any memoir and as exciting as any great war movie.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific. To get started finding The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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