The Naked Island
Russell Braddon
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.
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.
年:
1950
语言:
english
文件:
PDF, 13.28 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1950
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