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Cargando... The Naked Island (1952)por Russell Braddon, Ronald Searle
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. What a great read, informative and well written. It is the true story of Russell Braddon who was an Australian soldier captured in Malaya during WWII. It starts with his enlistment and training in the Australian Army, he then goes to Malaya to train and then fight against the Japanese. He is captured and becomes a POW, first in Malaya and then in Changi in Singapore before being sent to Thailand to work on the infamous Burma-Thai railway. He survives both the railway and the war and the book was written in the early 1950's. What I find great about the book is that it is so true of it's time, no political correctness or wavering in tone, it is written as it was thought then without regards to feelings but as an honest effort to tell it like he saw it and lived it. I found the chapter on the Malayan campaign to be particularly informative, although there is no part of the book that is not informative. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Russell Braddon wrote The Naked Island in 1950. By 1968 it had been reprinted eleven times and sold one million copies in Britain alone. As the author states, 'It was written to tell the world what sort of people the Japanese can be. It was written to explain what they did in the war and what they might well do again.' There are numerous books on the war in the East but this is one of the greatest. Often hilarious, even amidst the horror, this is the story of what the Japanese did to those they captured. It is written in prose all the more effective for its dry understatement and sharp observation by a man who never lost his will to live even in the most terrible circumstances. Braddon's story is however not that simply of a prisoner of war. In his comments on the equally brutal Japanese treatment of native workers and indeed any who were not Japanese, he reveals the hollow reality of the 'Greater Asian co-prosperity sphere' promised by the Japanese, and attempts to understand how one group of human beings could behave in such a way towards another and the inhuman ideology and fanaticism which drove the Japanese on. Even today the subject of Japanese war guilt is never far from the headlines and it was only last year that a deal on compensation was arrived at for surviving POWs. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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