When the Enemy is Tired.

by Russell Braddon

When the Enemy is Tired

270 pages, Hardcover

First published March 28, 1969

About the author

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.

Braddon was born in Sydney, Australia, the son of a barrister. He served in the Malayan campaign during World War II. 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.

In 1949, Braddon moved to England. He described his writing career as "beginning by chance". The Naked Island, published in 1952, was one of the first accounts of a Japanese prisoner of war's experience.

Braddon went on to produce a wide range of works, including novels, biographies, histories, TV scripts and newspaper articles. He was also a broadcaster on radio and television.

Proud Australian Boy: A Biography of Russell Braddon by Nigel Starck was published in Australia in 2011.

Reviews

[Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not great. I did like some of the fluid descriptions of settings though, and it’s fun to read old pulp literature . Always a joy to review a book that doesn’t even have a cover image on this app

[Gu Kun · Rating 2 out of 5]

Gave up after eighty pages.