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A Doctor’s Sword
AN IT Tralee lecturer will sign copies of the book he wrote about the incredible story of an Irish man who survived the Nagasaki atomic bomb at the end of World War 2.
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In 1940, he had been evacuated from Dunkirk, he then escaped burning planes, sinking ships and jungle warfare before being captured in Java by the Japanese. He endured almost four years of starvation, disease, slave labour and beatings at the hands of an enemy that had no regard for prisoners, and still managed to survive.
When Japan surrendered on 15 August 1945, the Japanese POW camp commandant did something unheard of – he gifted his ancestral sword to MacCarthy. A Doctor’s Sword is published by The Collins Press and is available in bookshops throughout Ireland and the UK.
