SAD BIOGRAPHY

“The Forgotten Highlander” by Alistair Urquhart This guy went through some of the worst conditions possible. He was a prisoner of war, worked at a slave labor camp, was put on a slave ship that was bombed, spent several days out at sea by himself, and was put to work in a mine near Nagasaki and felt the atomic bomb drop.          Life for prisoners was horrible. Prisoners worked 18 hours a day, 7 days a week. They were given only a cup of water and cup of rice as their meal for the entire day. The rice often contained maggots, lice, flies or other insects. Prisoners constantly got sick and contracted malaria, ringworm, tropical ulcers, and other diseases. In this horrible state, it’s not surprising that many people gave up on life. With no end in sight, many wished for a bullet to their head to end their suffering. Unlike fiction books such as Stephen King’s “IT” this books is real and the things that happened to this author happened in real life–that is true horror/sadness