{"product_id":"9780349122571","title":"The Forgotten Highlander : My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Urquhart, Alistair \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eSingapore\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 14 April 2011 by Little, Brown Book Group (Abacus) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 320 pages, Section: 16, b\/w photos\u003cbr\u003e197 x 128 x 25 | 302g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45782207922416,"sku":"9780349122571","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9780349122571.jpg?v=1713469502","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.live\/products\/9780349122571","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}