{"product_id":"9780349122571","title":"The Forgotten Highlander","description":"Author: Alistair Urquhart\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349122571\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 31 May 2011\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlistair 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 . . .\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46491601830046,"sku":"ADS-9780349122571","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780349122571.jpg?v=1770594875","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780349122571","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}