| Author's Note | xiii | ||
| PROLOGUE Ancestors | 1 | ||
| 1 Leaving Home | 5 | ||
| 2 Father | 14 | ||
| 3 Phan Thiet | 19 | ||
| 4 Mother | 28 | ||
| 5 Dalat Days | 32 | ||
| 6 The Mid-Autumn Festival | 41 | ||
| 7 Sea Grubs | 49 | ||
| 8 Saigon Night | 51 | ||
| 9 Cricket Fight | 57 | ||
| 10 The Recruiter | 64 | ||
| 11 Hoi and I | 71 | ||
| 12 The Draft | 80 | ||
| 13 The Orphan | 91 | ||
| 14 Famine | 97 | ||
| 15 The Famine Soup | 99 | ||
| 16 The Flood | 105 | ||
| 17 The Ambush | 107 | ||
| 18 The Last Magistrate | 120 | ||
| 19 The Democratic Republic of Vietnam | 124 | ||
| 20 The Trap | 129 | ||
| 21 The Algerian | 144 | ||
| 22 The Resistance Fighter | 154 | ||
| 23 The Tet Offensive | 164 | ||
| 24 The Executioner | 172 | ||
| 25 Old Friends | 184 | ||
| 26 The Champagne Bottle | 200 | ||
| 27 The Slave | 210 | ||
| 28 A Lull of Silence | 213 | ||
| 29 Crossing the French Line | 220 | ||
| 30 The Fall of Saigon | 226 | ||
| 31 The Widower | 241 | ||
| 32 The Capture | 251 | ||
| 33 The Peasant Girl | 267 | ||
| 34 Reeducation | 276 | ||
| 35 Farewell, Hanoi | 284 | ||
| 36 The Release | 294 | ||
| Bibliography | 299 | ||
| Acknowledgments | 301 |