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

    By Robert Widders

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    Sister Mary Cooper died in a Japanese prison camp on June 26, 1943 from the combined effects of starvation, brutality, and tropical diseases. Timothy Kenneally and Patrick Fitzgerald tried to escape from a slave labor camp on the Burma Railway. They were caught, tortured, crucified, and then executed on March 27, 1943. 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateNov 30, 2011
    ISBN9780752479453
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