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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Birlinn Ltd
Publication date
June 1, 2002
Pages
266
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781841581408
ISBN-10
1841581402
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.65 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$16.95
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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, âIt 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.â
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. Braddonâs 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 âGreater Asian co-prosperity sphereâ 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.
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. Braddonâs 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 âGreater Asian co-prosperity sphereâ 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.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Ulverscroft Large Print Books (February 1, 1982)
9780708980248 | details & prices | 6.25 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $27.99
About: After the disastrous Malayan campaign of 1942, the Japanese subjected their 40,000 prisoners to a pitiless regime of starvation and slavery.
About: After the disastrous Malayan campaign of 1942, the Japanese subjected their 40,000 prisoners to a pitiless regime of starvation and slavery.
Paperback
from Createspace Independent Pub (December 9, 2015)
9781519771223 | details & prices | 268 pages | 8.50 × 11.00 × 0.61 in. | List price $12.99
About: The experiences of an Australian solidier imprisoned in Changi for four years during World War II.
About: The experiences of an Australian solidier imprisoned in Changi for four years during World War II.
2 edition from Gardners Books (March 17, 2005)
9781843410201 | details & prices | 272 pages | 5.25 × 7.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $12.35
About: The Naked Island vividly portrays battle and prison life as experienced in the ranks.
About: The Naked Island vividly portrays battle and prison life as experienced in the ranks.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Birlinn Ltd (June 1, 2002)
9781841581408 | details & prices | 266 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $16.95
About: Russell Braddon wrote The Naked Island in 1950.
About: Russell Braddon wrote The Naked Island in 1950.
from Macmillan Pub Co (October 1, 1982)
9780689706295 | details & prices | List price $8.95
About: The author describes his experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war after the fall of Singapore in World War II
About: The author describes his experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war after the fall of Singapore in World War II
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