A Doctor's War (New edition)

publication date: 28/04/2006
ISBN13: 9781904943402
Format: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 260
ID: 9781904943402
ISBN10: 1904943403
edition: New edition

By: Aidan MacCarthy (author)Paperback

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Description

As an RAF medical officer, Aidan had served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Japanese-American arena comparable with those of famous war heroes. Interned by the Japanese in Java, he helped his fellow prisoners with amazing ingenuity in awful conditions. En route back to Japan in 1944, his ship was torpedoed but he was rescued by a whaling boat and re-interned in Japan. His life was literally saved by the dropping of the Nagasaki atom bomb. He was then eyewitness to the horror and devastation it caused. This is an almost incredible account written with humour and dignity.