Born #onthisday1921 Russell Braddon gritty Australian #novelist x 16 #biographer x 17 #essayist &amp; #screenwriter Captured in Malaya in WWII #novel The Naked Island (1952) was one of the 1st accounts of a Japanese POW’s experience Frequent broadcaster on British radio &amp; TV
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