This book tells the story of the survival of a man behind the lines of the Japanese during World War II, including his work on the Burma-Siam railway.

Robert Hamond also served in 18th Division and was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore. He later worked on the notorious Burma-Siam railway where so many died. Thirty years after the war he met Jim Wright and persuaded him to tell this extraordinary story, a story which Jim had not revealed, even to his family.