#318 Alistair Urquhart (Listen to this when you’re stressed)

I know that I'm a lucky man. I was lucky to survive capture in Singapore and to come out of the jungle alive after seven hundred and fifty days as a slave. I was lucky to survive my ordeal in the Japanese hell ship. And after we were torpedoed, I was lucky to survive five days adrift alone in the South China Sea. I was lucky to survive my close shave with the atomic bomb when I was struck by the blast at Nagasaki.

For over sixty years I have remained silent about my sufferings. About the unsettling tales of unimaginable torments. I am breaking my silence to bear witness to the systematic torture and murder of tens of thousands of Allied prisoners. We were a forgotten force in Singapore that vanished overnight. Into the jungles to become a ghost army.

Of starved slave. Laborers. We were starved and beaten. Tortured and massacred in the most sedistic fashion. In the early years after the war

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