Alistair Urquhart, a 91-year-old veteran of the British Army's Gordon Highlanders, spent three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese—one of 80,000 British who surrendered after the fall of Singapore. "Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse," he recalls, "it did." Urquhart's gripping book, The Forgotten Highlander, recently released in the United States, recounts how he survived slave labor on the notorious Death Railway in Thailand; blindness and paralysis; and the sinking of his "hell ship" prisoner transport, followed by five days alone at sea. His skills, grit, and self-discipline, with bits of luck, ultimately brought him a full and satisfying life.
-http://www.historynet.com/a-survivors-horrific-story-of-life-as-a-pow-in-the-pacific.htm
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