`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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