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1 online resource (268 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Background; 2. Malaya; 3. Force Z; 4. Java; 5. Father Giles; 6. Kieran Connolly and William Kenneally; 7. 'This is gallantry, is it not?'; 8. Changi; 9. Exodus; 10. Flight of the Angels; 11. Gunner 600; 12. Railway of Death; 13. An Irish Crucifixion?; 14. A Helping Hand and a Listening Ear; 15. 'They were a wall unto us ... '; 16. HMS Jupiter and Haroekoe Island; 17. The Great Escaper; 18. Battle for Hong Kong; 19. Sailing to the Rising Sun; 20. Japan; 21. Liberation; 22. Post War; 23. How and Why?; 24. Finally |
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NotesResearch Notes; Recommended Reading; Plate Section; Copyright |
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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 wome |
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Print version record |
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Prisoners of war -- Southeast Asia -- Interviews
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Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Interviews
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Prisoners of war
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Japan
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Southeast Asia
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Interviews
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780752479453 |
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0752479458 |
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