Surviving the Red Chapatti

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  1. OneTwo Boys from Shildon
  2. TwoIndia
  3. ThreeInto Burma
  4. FourThe Retreat
  5. FiveCaptured
  6. SixThe Big House
  7. SevenThe Early Days
  8. EightOut on Working Parties
  9. NineNo Good San
  10. TenMaking Do
  11. ElevenThe Mechanics' Camp
  12. TwelveThe Sick
  13. ThirteenThe Hospital and the Condemned Cells
  14. FourteenThe Cruellest Blow
  15. FifteenLiberation
  16. SixteenThe Long Way Home
  17. SeventeenComing Home
  18. EighteenAfter
  19. Appendix
  20. The Men — captured in Burma, 1942

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