About This Book
A wartime captive records his capture, movements between prison camps, and daily survival under harsh conditions, describing overcrowding, deprivation, disease, attempts at escape, prisoner resistance and discipline, hospital life, and the emotional toll of witnessing death. He gives first-person accounts of life on Belle Isle and in the notorious stockade, recounts raids, hangings, recapture and eventual successful escape, and appends practical lists and a roster of the dead compiled from official records. Entries combine diary narrative, episodic incidents, and administrative lists to document the lived experience of imprisonment and its aftermath.