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Russell Braddon
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Russell Reading Braddon was an Australian writer of novels, biographies and TV scripts. His chronicle of his four years as a prisoner of war, The Naked Island, sold more than a million copies.
Russell Braddon I
Russell Braddon I
Burma Railway
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The Burma Railway, also known as the Siam–Burma Railway, Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, or locally as the Death Railway, is a 415 km railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat, Burma.
Russell Braddon
…Army during World War II, serving in the Malayan campaign. He 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. During this time he met Ronald Searle, whose Changi sketches illustrate The Naked Island. After the war, he went on to study law…
The railway bridge over the Khwae Yai River in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand.
The railway bridge over the Khwae Yai River in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand.
Civilian workers during the construction of the railway between June 1942 and October 1943.
Civilian workers during the construction of the railway between June 1942 and October 1943.
The British government sold the Thai section of the Burma Railway to the Thai government for a total of 50 million baht.
The British government sold the Thai section of the Burma Railway to the Thai government for a total of 50 million baht.
An abandoned section of the Death Railway in Thanbyuzayat, Myanmar (Burma).
An abandoned section of the Death Railway in Thanbyuzayat, Myanmar (Burma).