BROADMOOR: My Journey Into Hell

'The closest place on earth that you will get to hell' said Charlie Bronson who documents his story of five years as a long-term prisoner at Britain's most notorious mental hospital, Broadmoor. His journey has until this book never been told. In the winter of 1979 and aged just 27, 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 infamous high-security psychiatric hospital 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 in a journey filled with sadness but including much laughter and pathos as well as detailing the camaraderie among fellow patients who included Ronnie Kray and Frankie Fraser. How Bronson survived Broadmoor and what he endured and witnessed are documented in this sad, moving, often chilling and sometimes funny account for the very first time. Chapters include Up On the Roof Parts One and Two 21st May 1981 and 19th - 22nd June 1983, The Manure Heap and Other Madness, and appendices include Famous Inmates like the artist Richard Dadd who killed his father and who was transferred to the newly created Broadmoor in July 1864 where he was allowed to continue to paint and produced his most famous masterpieces. Also an appendix of drugs. 204pp, paperback. Photos.