Foreword Translator's Preface Author's Preface 1 Hanging the House Nameplate 2 A Soldier without a Country 3 The Dirge-like Farewell Banner 4 Across the Straits Again 5 The Black Wooden Barracks 6 An Undreamed-of Happenstance 7 To the Latrine and Back 8 All Punished for a Piece of Bread 9 No Time Even to Go to the Latrine 10 Inspection of Underpants 11 The Encouragement of Love 12 The Day My Wife Left Hiroshima 13 Boating and Tunneling Practice 14 Cadet Officer Training 15 The First B-29: The Time at the Engineering Academy 16 Fighting to Lose 17 Return to My Country and a Week in My Home Town 18 A Shame-Faced Visit to the Ancestral Grave 19 Father's Final Instructions 21 "Nan Desuka?" 22 Shinto Shrine Worship 23 Preparing His Grave 24 Things Father Taught 25 Life in the Pyongyang Engineer Corps 26 Sergeant Arai 27 A Farcical Interview 28 Liberation, but Apprehension 29 Forming Ranks to Return Home 30 The World Upside Down 31 The Evil Hand Reaches Out 32 A South-Bound Coast Runner 33 Shoemaker in Freedom 34 The Last Day of Hiroshima 35 The Wave of the Korean War 36 Carried by the Flood 37 An Unexpected Trip to Japan 38 The First KATUSAs 39 Following the Historic Battle 40 The Advance to the Yalu 41 The Return from the Door of National Unification 42 Meeting My Hamheung Family 43 We Were Twins 44 My University Years 45 The Dramatic Way South 46 My Wife's Story 47 Standing Again before the Name-plate Afterword