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A Doctor's Sword

By (author) Bob Jackson
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Gill, Ireland
Imprint: The Collins Press
Published: 28th May 2017
Dimensions: w 121mm h 195mm d 20mm
Weight: 315g
ISBN-10: 1848893205
ISBN-13: 9781848893207
Barcode No: 9781848893207
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Synopsis
`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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Fascinating, engrossing, educational read. * Irish Examiner * Powerful, powerful read. * Patricia Messenger Show, C103 * Engrossing. * Firecall magazine * Gripping stuff. -- Cahir O'Doherty * Irish Voice * Exemplary biography ... to be filed under the 'couldn't make it up' category. * Irish Independent *