Description: I COMBINE SHIPPING $1.50 per book. FREE SHIPPING for orders over $60. Send books to your check-out cart. E-Bay will automatically adjust shipping costs. PACKAGING & SHIPPING RULES: 1. Individual books Under $18.00 are shipped in padded poly envelopes. 2. Individual books Over $18.00 are shipped in a poly envelope inside a box. 3. Buy Three or more books and the order is shipped in a box.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS LISTING:This is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at nineteen, who survived not just one but three separate encounters with death—encounters which killed nearly all his comrades. Silent for over fifty years, this is Alistair Urquhart’s extraordinary, moving, and inspirational tale of survival against the odds.Alistair Urquhart was among the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore during World War II. He not only survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious “death railway” and the bridge on the River Kwai, but he was subsequently taken prisoner on one of the Japanese “hellships” which was later torpedoed, killing nearly everyone on board—but not Urquhart.He spent five days adrift on a raft in the South China Sea before being rescued by a Japanese whaling ship. He was then taken to Japan and forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later he was struck by the blast from the atomic bomb—dropped just ten miles away.In late August 1945, now a barely-living skeleton, he was freed by the American Navy and was able to bathe for the first time in three and a half years.
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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Book Title: The Forgotten Highlander
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Item Length: 8.2 in
Intended Audience: Adults
Modified Item: No
Subject: History
Vintage: No
Publication Year: 2011
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Era: 1940s
Item Height: 1 in
Author: Alistair Urquhart
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, History, Military, War & Combat
Topic: Army, Asia / Japan, British Wars, Combat, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, Memoir, Military / General, Military / World War II, Military History, POW, True Military Stories, World War II
Subjects: History & Military
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Item Width: 5.5 in
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
