Includes index.

1. The Old Timer; 2. Finding Friends and Making Codes; 3. Guarino, Junior Birdmen, and a Tough Guy from Canoe U.; 4. Friends, Nightmares, and the Briarpatch; 5. Fall 1965-A Long Time of Testing Begins; 6. Knutson-A Pretty Tough Nugget; 7. Hanging In There; 8. It Could Never Happen to Me; 9. Things Get Rough All Over; 10. Spring 1966- Hard Times Continue; 11. The Hanoi Parade; 12. The "Make Your Choice" Program; 13. Late 1966-The Battle Rages; 14. Stratton, Superman, and Stockdale; 15. A "Spy" from the Sea, and Trouble on the Home Front; 16. No Early Release, No Repent, No Repay; 17. Summer 1967-The Meanest of Times; 18. A Joke, A Dream, and a Trial; 19. Promises to Keep; 20. Women Strike for Peace, and Fidel; 21. Late 1967-The Crown Prince, The Alcatraz Eleven, The Fink Release Program; 22. "Dying is Easy. Living is the Difficult Thing"; 23. Storybook Soldiers; 24. "Illegitmae Non Carborundum"; 25. Fidel, Kasler, and the Faker; 26. Yankees Who Won't Go Home; 27. Warriors, Antiwarriors, and Death; 28. Summer of Horror; 29. The End of the Terror; 30. Some Antiwar POWS; 31. The Sontay Raid-A Huge Success; 32. Wilber, Miller, and the Outer Seven; 33. More Escape, More Torture, and Bitter Dissension; 34. The Last, Bitter Months; 35. Going Home; Postscript; "Above and Beyond"; Appendix: The Prisoners; Index