CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| [Introduction] | v | |
| [PART I] | ||
| I | [The House of Bondage] | 3 |
| II | [Ruhleben: The Sheep and the Goats] | 13 |
| III | [The Sanatorium] | 25 |
| IV | [Planning the Details] | 31 |
| V | [A Glimpse of Freedom] | 39 |
| VI | [In Hiding] | 52 |
| VII | [Failure] | 69 |
| VIII | [A New Hope] | 76 |
| IX | [Breaking Prison] | 91 |
| X | [Caught Again!] | 109 |
| XI | [Under Escort] | 120 |
| XII | [The Stadtvogtei and “Solitary”] | 126 |
| XIII | [Classes and Masses in the Stadtvogtei] | 146 |
| XIV | [Prison Life and Officials] | 154 |
| [PART II] | ||
| XV | [A Fresh Attempt] | 179 |
| XVI | [From Berlin to Haltern] | 190 |
| XVII | [Westward Ho!] | 202 |
| XVIII | [The Game is Up] | 218 |
| [PART III] | ||
| XIX | [Footing the Bill] | 233 |
| XX | [Ruhleben Again] | 251 |
| XXI | [The Day] | 265 |
| XXII | [Order of March] | 292 |
| XXIII | [The Road Through the Night] | 304 |
| XXIV | [Crossing the Ems] | 319 |
| XXV | [The Last Lap] | 333 |
| XXVI | [Free at Last] | 348 |
PART I
CHAPTER I
THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE
The date was April 7, 1916. The fat German warder backed out of my cell, a satisfied smile on his face; the door swung to, the great key clicked in the lock, and I was alone.
Prison once more! And only a bare three miles away was the frontier for which I had striven so hard—the ditch and the barbed wire that separated Germany, and all that that word means, from Holland, the Hook, the London boat, and freedom.