The Forgotten Highlander- An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific

✍ Urquhart, Alistair 📂 Fiction 🏛 Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 391 KB

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 on a J

The Forgotten Highlander- An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific

✍ Urquhart, Alistair 📂 Fiction 🏛 Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 283 KB

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 on a

Indignant suicide in the Pacific: an exa

Indignant suicide in the Pacific: an example from the Toraja highlands of Indonesia

✍ Douglas Hollan 📂 Article 📅 1990 🏛 Springer US 🌐 English ⚖ 910 KB

This paper describes and analyzes a type of Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) suicide in which a person kills him or herself after having been slighted or offended, usually by a close family member. Comparing and contrasting such suicides to similar types found elsewhere in Austronesia-speaking Oce

Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

✍ Zuckoff, Mitchell 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Harper 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

### Amazon.com Review *Lost in Shangri-La*, Mitchell Zuckoff’s remarkable and inspiring narrative. Faced with the potential brutality of the Dani tribe, known throughout the valley for its violence, the trio’s lives were dependent on an unprecedented rescue mission--a dedicated group of paratrooper

Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

✍ Zuckoff, Mitchell 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Harper 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

### Amazon.com Review *Lost in Shangri-La*, Mitchell Zuckoff’s remarkable and inspiring narrative. Faced with the potential brutality of the Dani tribe, known throughout the valley for its violence, the trio’s lives were dependent on an unprecedented rescue mission--a dedicated group of paratrooper

Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

✍ Zuckoff, Mitchell 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Harper 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

### Amazon.com Review *Lost in Shangri-La*, Mitchell Zuckoff’s remarkable and inspiring narrative. Faced with the potential brutality of the Dani tribe, known throughout the valley for its violence, the trio’s lives were dependent on an unprecedented rescue mission--a dedicated group of paratrooper

The Forgotten Highlander- An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific

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