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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 sotyr 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 | 1408702126 | | Pages | 320 | | ISBN13 | 9781408702123
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 515 | | Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Little, Brown | | Previous ISBN | 9781408702116 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 233 | | Publication date | 04 Mar 2010 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | DEWEY | 940.547252092 | | Spine width (mm) | 28 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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