The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart

20/02/2025 8h 36min
The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart

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Title: The Forgotten Highlander
Author: Alistair Urquhart
Narrator: David Rintoul
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
Release date: 02-20-25
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating
Genres: Military
Publisher's Summary:
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 . . .