The Naked Island
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of the most harrowing and unflinching memoirs to emerge from the Second World War, The Naked Island is Russell Braddon's searing personal account of his capture by Japanese forces following the fall of Singapore in 1942 and the years of brutal suffering that followed in prisoner-of-war camps across Malaya, Thailand, and Japan. Braddon chronicles his experiences with raw, unsentimental honesty — the starvation, the forced labour on the infamous Burma-Thailand Railway, the casual savagery of captivity, and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable degradation. What elevates this work beyond a simple war memoir is Braddon's remarkable literary voice — sharp, darkly humorous at times, and devastatingly direct — which transforms personal trauma into a universal testament to endurance and the bonds forged between men under extreme duress. First published in 1952, the book caused a sensation in Australia and Britain, forcing a public reckoning with the forgotten suffering of Far East prisoners of war. Braddon's narrative remains one of the most important antipodean contributions to Second World War literature, and its power to disturb, move, and compel the reader has not diminished by a single degree.
Author: Russell Braddon
Format: Paperback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of the most harrowing and unflinching memoirs to emerge from the Second World War, The Naked Island is Russell Braddon's searing personal account of his capture by Japanese forces following the fall of Singapore in 1942 and the years of brutal suffering that followed in prisoner-of-war camps across Malaya, Thailand, and Japan. Braddon chronicles his experiences with raw, unsentimental honesty — the starvation, the forced labour on the infamous Burma-Thailand Railway, the casual savagery of captivity, and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable degradation. What elevates this work beyond a simple war memoir is Braddon's remarkable literary voice — sharp, darkly humorous at times, and devastatingly direct — which transforms personal trauma into a universal testament to endurance and the bonds forged between men under extreme duress. First published in 1952, the book caused a sensation in Australia and Britain, forcing a public reckoning with the forgotten suffering of Far East prisoners of war. Braddon's narrative remains one of the most important antipodean contributions to Second World War literature, and its power to disturb, move, and compel the reader has not diminished by a single degree.