Suh Sung is professor of international studies at Ritsumeikan University.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 Author's Preface to the English EditionChapter 3 Translator's NoteChapter 4 ChronologyChapter 5 IntroductionChapter 6 Frame-upChapter 7 TrialChapter 8 Prison Life—The 1970sChapter 9 My Comrades—The Unconverted PrisonersChapter 10 The Struggle against the System of Ideological ConversionChapter 11 MourningChapter 12 The 1980sChapter 13 Freedom

A phenomenal best-seller in Japan, Suh Sung's memoir is at once a painstaking and painful description of prison life in South Korea during Park Chung Hee's dictatorial rule, and a memorable and moving testimony to the resiliency of the human spirit. Unbroken Spirits instructs, instigates, and inspires. I recommend it heartily.