![]() 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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