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Russell Reading Braddon (25 January 1921 – 20 March 1995) 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 Reading Braddon (25 January 1921 – 20 March 1995) 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, 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.

The committal chamber is the room where coffins arrive, after they disappear through the black curtains in the .

The committal chamber is the room where coffins arrive, after they disappear through the black curtains in the crematorium, after the funeral service. The black drapes are a deliberate piece of theatre, intended to conceal the reality of the chamber from the mourners, who believe that the late lamented’s body is now immediately being consumed in the flames of a fiery furnace. In fact, the coffin arrives at the chamber and is deposited on a trolley, where the lid is loosened (or the coffin will explode).

Committal Chamber book. 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 was held as a prisoner of war by the Japanese in Pudu and Changi prisons and on the T Russell Reading Braddon was an Australian writer of novels, biographies and TV scripts

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London : White Lion Publishers. Committal chamber, Russell Braddon White Lion Publishers London 1976. Australian/Harvard Citation. Book, Online - Google Books. Braddon, Russell, 1921-1995.

Item Description: This book has light wear. There is a very small tears (1/4 inches) in the side margin of pages 135 & 137. There is a date written inside the front cover. This book was a library book and has card holder, stamp, and reference sticker. They sat there, crossword puzzles completed, quietly reading their newspapers, the elderly man of sixty-six and the young man of twenty. The elderly man, silver-haired and gaunt, sat straight-backed on a wooden chair.

Used availability for Russell Braddon's Committal Chamber. August 1976 : UK Hardback. November 1968 : UK Paperback.

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Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears, and is foxed here and there. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges foxed and browned. Category: Fiction; Australia; Australian Literature; Pictures of this item.