{"product_id":"forgotten-highlander-my-incredible-story-of-survival-during-the-war-in-the-far-east-0349122571","title":"Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0349122571\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Abacus\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 ...This 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":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51541845967136,"sku":"NEW0349122571","price":22.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":51541845999904,"sku":"USED0349122571","price":13.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91V-TPsbzYL.jpg?v=1777546339","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/forgotten-highlander-my-incredible-story-of-survival-during-the-war-in-the-far-east-0349122571","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}