The Forgotten Highlander
My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
Death Railway, then a torpedoed hellship, then Nagasaki. One man absorbed nearly every horror of the Pacific war
Captured at Singapore in 1942, Urquhart worked on the Burma Death Railway, survived a torpedoed hellship that killed most aboard, and was in a camp near Nagasaki when the bomb fell. He told almost none of it for sixty years. The book is his account written in his eighties, and its restraint is what makes the scale of what he endured land.
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