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Russell Braddon
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
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This is a first-hand account of the author’s experiences as a Japanese PoW during World War II. Russell Braddon spent three years in captivity, witnessing the horrors of Singapore’s famous…
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Previously published in 1956 by Cassell –Title page verso
The Naked Island vividly portrays battle and prison life as experienced in the ranks. It is a tale of heroism, horror, squalor, starvation and disease endured with fortitude, ironic humour…
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture.
