Set in order for reading
The Reading Edition
The same memoir set into the order events happened and divided into chapters — the easiest way to read his story from beginning to end.
- OneTwo Boys from Shildon
- TwoIndia
- ThreeInto Burma
- FourThe Retreat
- FiveCaptured
- SixThe Big House
- SevenThe Early Days
- EightOut on Working Parties
- NineNo Good San
- TenMaking Do
- ElevenThe Mechanics' Camp
- TwelveThe Sick
- ThirteenThe Hospital and the Condemned Cells
- FourteenThe Cruellest Blow
- FifteenLiberation
- SixteenThe Long Way Home
- SeventeenComing Home
- EighteenAfter
- Appendix
- The Men — captured in Burma, 1942
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