![]() ![]() The Japanese knew every trick of humiliating and breaking their prisoners. Then followed over three years of captivity-in Kuala Lumpur, in Changi gaol at Singapore, in Thailand (Siam) building the notorious ‘railway of death’. On his twenty-first birthday he was captured and seated in a ditch to be shot-but the Japanese changed their minds. After sketchy training the troops were plunged into battle against an enemy well trained and overwhelming in numbers. Russell Braddon arrived in Malaya in 1941. ![]() THE NAKED ISLAND is a war narrative of appalling suffering, but also of indomitable courage and endurance on the part of British and Australian soldiers. He’d got them from a friend at work, along with many of his minor possessions, while he worked at Saunders-Roe, an aircraft company in East Cowes, Isle of Wight. They were already well-worn, some with loose pages. My stepfather, Sep Charlton, had a dozen war books in Pan paperback editions. ![]()
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