Author’s note, Introduction, 1. The road to captivity, 2. Changi: the beginning, 3. Making bricks without straw: the Burma–Thai Railway, 4. Untold stories: the other camps, 5. A complex relationship: doctors and captors, 6. Doctor and officer, 7. Beyond the call: coping in captivity, 8. The long shadow: after the war, Glossary of medical terms, Appendix A: Australian POW doctors, Appendix B: Doctors’ deaths in captivity, Endnotes, Bibliography, Acknowledgements, Index
Rosalind Hearder received her PhD in military history at the University of Melbourne in 2004, and won the inaugural C.E.W. Bean Prize from the Australian Chief of Army for her thesis. She was later a Fulbright scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This is her first book.