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The Emperor's Irish Slaves: Prisoners of the Japanese in the Second World War

The Emperor's Irish Slaves: Prisoners of the Japanese in the Second World War

Paperback

Historical FiguresIrish HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 1520810040
ISBN13: 9781520810041
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 20 2012
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
More than 650 Irish men and women faced unimaginable horrors as prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army. The Emperor's Irish Slaves reveals their harrowing true story.
  • Sister Mary Cooper perished in a Japanese prison camp, succumbing to starvation, brutality, and tropical diseases.
  • Timothy Kenneally and Patrick Fitzgerald made a desperate escape attempt from a slave labour camp on the Burma Railway. Caught, tortured, and crucified, they were executed on 27 March 1943.
  • Patrick Carberry endured the summer of 1943 cremating the emaciated corpses of his comrades, who fell victim to cholera.
Nearly a quarter of the Irish POWs were murdered in captivity. This gripping account combines historical narrative with first-hand testimonies, shedding light on the suffering, resilience, and eventual homecoming of the survivors.

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