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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Maps
Author’s Note
Preface
PART I EUROPE
1. Becoming a POW
2. Settling In and Getting By
3. Uses for a Red Cross Parcel Number 1 – String
4. Friendships and Feuds
5. Sport
6. Uses for a Red Cross Parcel Number 2 – Cigarettes
7. ‘Stalag Happy’ – Imaginary Worlds and Other Ways of Escape
8. Uses for a Red Cross Parcel Number 3 – Tins
9. POW Artists
PART II THE WAR IN THE EAST
10. Surrender
11. Changi
12. Turned Out Rice Again: Food and Cooking
13. Make Do and Mend
14. Entertainment: ‘You’ll Never Get Off this Island!’
15. Sport
16. Recording Captivity Through Art and Photography
17. POW Doctor
18. Taking Flight: Escape Through Birdwatching
19. Survival Teams
20. Escape Through Study
21. University of Kuching
22. Languages and Communicating with the Outside World
23. Hidden Wireless Sets
24. Religion
25. The Magic of Letters from Home
26. The Changi Murals
PART III EUROPE
27. Reading for Profit
28. Gardening and Birdwatching
29. Study
30. Music and Theatre
PART IV THE FAR EAST
31. ‘Upcountry’: The Thailand–Burma Railway
32. Art and Medicine on the Railway
33. Archaeologist on the ‘Death Railway’
34. Entertainment and Ingenuity in Thailand
35. ‘Home’ Again: Changi Gaol
36. The POW Diaspora
PART V FREEDOM
37. Somewhere Near the End
38. Victory in the Far East
39. Homecoming
PART VI EX-POWS
40. Aftermath
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
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