Alistair Urquhart: 2 books
The Forgotten Highlander
An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious “Death Railway” and building the Bridge on the River Kwai. Subsequently, he moved to work...
by Alistair MacLeod, Jane Urquhart
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a...