Forgotten highlander, paperback/alistair urquhart

The extraordinary and moving story by an ex-POW and last surviving member of the Gordon Highlanders regiment, captured by the Japanese in Singapore.

He worked on the notorious bridge over the River Kwai, was torpedoed on a prison ship bound for Japan, and transported to a camp only 11 miles from a fateful city called Nagasaki.

Riveting.

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