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'My business with Japan is unfinished'

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Alistair Urquhart is publishing a new book describing his experiences of suffering in a Japanese Prisoner of War camp during the Second World War.

He was forced to work on the construction of the notorious bridge on the River Kwai, survived the sinking of a notorious prison ship and witnessed the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

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