Author interview: Untold story of Irishman who survived a slave labour camp

Don Ferguson, an accountant in Singapore during the Second World War ended up in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, and was lucky to survive to tell the tale

Fergus Kennedy tells Sue Leonard his parents fell in love in Ballybunion, Co Kerry, and got engaged in 1940: ‘All my father had wanted was to get married, start a family, and have an income. And he ended up in a prisoner of war camp. His is an extraordinary story.’

• Ballybunion to the River Kwai 
• Fergus Kennedy
• Gill Books, €18.99