- Publisher: John Blake
- Year: 2022
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 196x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781789465372
- Product code: 538062
Broadmoor
New Paperback Illustrated
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Just 27 when he was admitted to Broadmoor, Charles Bronson was determined to leave as ‘a better man… a man of respect, with dignity’. In this brutally honest account he reveals the harsh reality of his time there – the violence, meted out by inmates as well as staff; the over prescription of drugs; his four-day rooftop protest – but also the sense of camaraderie and the efforts required for him to retain his sanity.
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THE CLOSEST PLACE ON EARTH THAT YOU WILL GET TO HELL - Charlie Bronson
Broadmoor: My Journey Into Hell documents the story of long-term prisoner Charlie Bronson and his five-year stay at Britain's most notorious mental hospital, Broadmoor. His journey has, until now, never been told.
In the winter of 1979, aged just twenty-seven, the inmate who would come to be known as 'Charlie Bronson' was considered uncontrollable by the prison system. Certified insane, he was transferred from Parkhurst Prison to the most infamous high-security psychiatric hospital in England, Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane. There he embarked on a one-man campaign to retain his sanity, and to fight against the brutality of a largely hidden regime that relied on enforced drug control.
This outstandingly honest account takes the reader back to those dark days. It is a journey filled with sadness, and yet it is one that includes much laughter and pathos, as well as detailing the camaraderie among fellow patients, who included Ronnie Kray and Frankie Fraser. How Charlie Bronson survived Broadmoor, what he endured and the things he witnessed are, for the very first time, documented in this sad, moving, often chilling and sometimes funny account of one man's journey into madness and his methods for surviving the UK's most feared and notorious psychiatric hospital. Capturing Bronson's unique voice, it is a roller-coaster ride of madness, pain, laughter and tears.
Broadmoor: My Journey Into Hell documents the story of long-term prisoner Charlie Bronson and his five-year stay at Britain's most notorious mental hospital, Broadmoor. His journey has, until now, never been told.
In the winter of 1979, aged just twenty-seven, the inmate who would come to be known as 'Charlie Bronson' was considered uncontrollable by the prison system. Certified insane, he was transferred from Parkhurst Prison to the most infamous high-security psychiatric hospital in England, Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane. There he embarked on a one-man campaign to retain his sanity, and to fight against the brutality of a largely hidden regime that relied on enforced drug control.
This outstandingly honest account takes the reader back to those dark days. It is a journey filled with sadness, and yet it is one that includes much laughter and pathos, as well as detailing the camaraderie among fellow patients, who included Ronnie Kray and Frankie Fraser. How Charlie Bronson survived Broadmoor, what he endured and the things he witnessed are, for the very first time, documented in this sad, moving, often chilling and sometimes funny account of one man's journey into madness and his methods for surviving the UK's most feared and notorious psychiatric hospital. Capturing Bronson's unique voice, it is a roller-coaster ride of madness, pain, laughter and tears.
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Just 27 when he was admitted to Broadmoor, Charles Bronson was determined to leave as ‘a better man… a man of respect, with dignity’. In this brutally honest account he reveals the harsh reality of his time there – the violence, meted out by inmates as well as staff; the over prescription of drugs; his four-day rooftop protest – but also the sense of camaraderie and the efforts required for him to retain his sanity.
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