{"product_id":"9781848895898","title":"A Doctor's Sword: How an Irish Doctor Survived War, Captivity and the Atomic Bomb","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘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.’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the end of the war, a Japanese officer did the unthinkable: he surrendered his samurai sword to MacCarthy, his enemy and former prisoner.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is a story of survival, forgiveness and humanity at its most admirable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Collins Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177423159536,"sku":"9781848895898","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781848895898_p0.jpg?v=1763750867","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781848895898","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}