Russell
Braddon

Writer

1921-1995


Russell Braddon was an Australian writer of novels, biographies and TV scripts. He served in the Malayan campaign during World War II and was held as a prisoner of war by the Japanese in Pudu and Changi prisons and on the Thailand-Burma Railway between 1942 and 1945. His chronicle of his four years as a prisoner of war, The Naked Island, has sold over a million copies.




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