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.
| ISBN: | 9780349122571 |
| Publication date: | 14th April 2011 |
| Author: | Alistair Urquhart |
| Publisher: | Abacus an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Genres: |
Biography: general |