Alistair Urquhart

“It was 415 kilometers long. Through some of the most inhospitable terrain on the planet, over 16,000 British, Australian, Dutch, American, and Canadian prisoners died on the railway.”

“He does have a piece of advice that stay at the front and do not look back. I think that, that idea of don't, the advice of don't look back is smart and a lot applies to more than just this. The Bennett, he was more physically fit than anybody else, even thoug…”

“The younger, like the 19 year olds, the 20 year olds died at a faster rate than like the 30 and 40 year olds because the 30 and 40 year olds had something to live for. A lot of the men were married and would talk about their families back home. These slightly …”

“He is in his nineties when he's writing this.”

“When I left Aberdeen, that's his little city he lived in, I weighed a healthy 135 pounds, but here in Nagasaki, on the steel yard scales, I was reduced to a skeletal 82 pounds.”