The Naked Island

The Naked Island
by Russell Braddon

The Naked Island
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Author: Russell Braddon
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-02
ISBN: 1841581402
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Birlinn Publishers

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Book Review: POW's in Malaya and Singapore
Summary: 5 Stars

I was told of this book by a friend and, because I had known one of the men mentioned in the book (Padre Noel Duckworth) when I was a teenager, I bought and read it. I found it extremely well written, at times amusing, at times harrowing, always informative. I agree with the book's blurb that it is one of the best first-hand accounts of life as an Allied soldier and then POW in Malaya/Singapore during World War Two. It was, quite simply, a book I could not put down. It should be re-printed and re-issued. [ASIN:1843410206 Naked Island]]

Summary of The Naked Island

This work is a first-hand account of a Japanese prisoner of war. It comments on the brutal Japanese treatment of native workers and any who were not Japanese, and it reveals the reality of the "Greater Asian co-prosperity sphere" promised by the Japanese.

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