A doctor's sword : how an Irish doctor survived war, captivity and the atomic bomb /
Bob Jackson.
- Cork : The Collins Press, 2016.
- 294 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- Home -- War in Europe -- Bober Command -- War in the East -- The shadow of the Rising Sun -- oyage to hell -- An unlikely saviour -- A slave in Nagasaki -- Final reserves -- 'The end of the world' -- Liberation -- Post-war life -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- End notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
This is the astonishing story of wartime adventures of Dr Aidan McCarthy, 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.