“Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize of the happiness that will come. Even when the Death Railway reduced us to little more than animals,… — Alistair Urquhart Copy Share Image
“How does one describe the feelings of a person who has been through something like we had, something no one could ever have envisaged? They could never comprehend the depths of man's inhumanity to man or the awfulness of an… — Alistair Urquhart Copy Share Image
“I knew people were dying around me on the railway but I didn't really want to know. It was too dispiriting. It was difficult to judge the full toll of casualties and by this stage I had become so self-obsessed, in a true mental battle just to get through each day. I had very few friends at Hellfire Pass and… — Alistair Urquhart Copy Share
“Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize of the… — Alistair Urquhart Copy Share Image
“I was so burned and emaciated and ill that I staggered through the streets like a drunk. Some of the locals turned their backs… — Alistair Urquhart Copy Share Image
“How does one describe the feelings of a person who has been through something like we had, something no one could ever have envisaged?… — Alistair Urquhart Copy Share Image
“I could soon see outlines of people in the water in the distance, all of them covered in oil. I had no way to… — Alistair Urquhart Copy Share Image
