Sister Mary Cooper died in a Japanese prison camp on 26 June 1943, from the combined effects of starvation, brutality and tropical diseases. Timothy Kenneally and Patrick Fitzgerald tried to escape from a slave labour camp on the Burma Railway. They were caught, tortured - crucified - and then executed on 27 March 1943. And Patrick Carberry spent the summer of 1943 cremating the emaciated corpses of his comrades, who had died from cholera. These people had two things in common: they were Irish citizens serving with the British armed forces; and they were amongst more than 650 Irishmen and women who became prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army in 1942. Nearly a quarter of them were murdered whilst in Japanese captivity - this is their story. Combining historical narrative with first-hand accounts of the conditions in Japanese POW camps, Robert Widders brings to light their suffering and the strength that saw them home again.
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Avery clear account of the conditions that our troops had to endure whilst in prisoner of war camp.
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I was born at the end of 1944.What this book has done for me is to make realise the sacrifices made by these British Troops,
to enable me to the live the life I have to date.Their action protected our futures a debt we will never be able to repay!!!
to enable me to the live the life I have to date.Their action protected our futures a debt we will never be able to repay!!!
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a dark part of Irish history
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This is a story about Irish men who faught under the British and Allied forces in the second world war. To any body with any knolege of events in the Asain battlefields and pow camps the raw meterial will not be new. The real story is that there was so many from a netural country that for many reasons left their homes and familys to go half way round the world when they did not have to.
The other story is the way they were treated by the Irish Goverment and people when they came home. Those that were left.
The other story is the way they were treated by the Irish Goverment and people when they came home. Those that were left.
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