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...NAKED ISLAND (286 pp.)-Russell Braddon-Doubleday...
Russell Reading Braddon, an artillery gunner with Australia's 8th Division, spent his 21st birthday with both feet in a grave. It was early 1942, and he had been captured by the Japanese as they slithered through Malaya like lizards, chewing up the paper-thin defenses of Britain's "naked island" fortress, Singapore. Singapore fell, but Gunner Braddon lived, not to fight but to write another day. The result is a gutty, scalp-raising account of the "war of capitulation" in Southeast Asia, and the best book of its kind since F. Spencer Chapman's The Jungle...
...been for me a sovereign remedy against the disgusts of life, and I have never had a vexation that an hour's reading has not dissipated." But a man could not say that, who should choose Paul de Kock for his bosom friend rather than Milton, or prefer Miss Braddon's society to that of Vittoria Colonne...