A Doctor's Sword
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A Doctor's Sword

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A Doctor's Sword

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About This Book

'There followed a blue flash accompanied by a ver y bright magnesium-type flare … Then came a frighteningly loud but rather flat explosion, which was followed by a blast of hot air … All this was followed by eerie silence.' This was Cork doctor Aidan MacCarthy's description of the atomic bomb explosion above Nagasaki in August 1945, just over a mile from where he was trembling in a makeshift bomb shelter in the Mitsubishi POW camp. At the end of the war, a Japanese officer did the unthinkable: he surrendered his samurai sword to MacCarthy, his enemy and former prisoner. This is the astonishing story of the wartime adventures of Dr Aidan MacCarthy, who survived the evacuation at Dunkirk, burning planes, sinking ships, jungle warfare and appalling privation as a Japanese prisoner of war. It is a story of survival, forgiveness and humanity at its most admirable.

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Publisher
The Collins Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781848895898
Topic
History
Subtopic
Military Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. About the author
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue
  7. 1. Home
  8. 2. War in Europe
  9. 3. Bomber Command
  10. 4. War in the East
  11. 5. The Shadow of the Rising Sun
  12. 6. Voyage to Hell
  13. 7. An Unlikely Saviour
  14. 8. A Slave in Nagasaki
  15. 9. Final Reserves
  16. 10. ‘The End of the World’
  17. 11. Liberation
  18. 12. Post-War Life
  19. Epilogue
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Endnotes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Imprint Page
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