Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Land of Misfortune (April 1912 - June 1926)

  1. My family   
  2. My Father and the Korean People's Association
  3. Long Live Korea!  
  4. A state-less vagabond in foreign places
  5. The Song of Yalu - Ahpnok-gang
  6. My Mother
  7. Father's Legacy

Chapter 2:  The Unforgettable Whajun Day (July 1926 - December 1926)

  1. Whasung Military Academy  
  2. Disillusion
  3. Down with Imperialism' Association
  4. In Search of a New Stage
  5. Lee Kwan Rin - The Indomitable Heroin

Chapter 3: My Days in Jirin  (January 1927 - May 1930)

  1. Ahn Chang Ho's Lecture  
  2. United Front of "Three Commands"
  3. Cha Kwang Soo's Chosen Path
  4. Lessons of Wanchunmun Massacre
  5. In Search of Progressive Ideas
  6. My Teacher Sang Wol
  7. Korean Youth Communist League
  8. Expanding the Organization
  9. Showing Force of United Front
  10. In Prison

Chapter 4: In Search of a New Direction (May 1930 - December 1930)

  1. The Rev. Son Jung Doh 
  2. A Spring of Trials
  3. The Kalun Meeting
  4. The First Party Organization
  5. The Korean Revolutionary Army
  6. Poet  Kim Hyok and How I became 'Kim Il Sung'
  7. The Summer of 1930
  8. Crossing the River Tuman
  9. An "Ideal Village" into a Revolutionary Village
  10. Unforgettable Men and Women

Chapter 5: People Up In Arms (January 1931 - April 1932)

  1. The Earth in Agony
  2. The September 18 Incident
  3. To Oppose Armed Force with Armed Force
  4. Preparations for a Bloody Battle
  5. The Birth of a New Army

Chapter 6: The Year of Tribulations (May 1932 - February 1933

  1. To South Manchuria
  2. The Last Image
  3. Joy and Sorrow
  4. Joint Operations with Yang Se Bong?
  5. With an Ideal of Unity
  6. Together with the National Salvation Army
  7. Autumn in Xiaoshahe
  8. On the Heights of Luozigou

Chapter 7: The People's World (February 1933  - February 1934)

  1. The Home Base
  2. The Enemy's Ground by Day; Our Ground by Night
  3. The Choice between the Soviet and the People's Revolutionary
  4. The Man from the Comintern
  5. The Memory of a White Horse

Chapter 8: Raising Anti-Japan Banners (February 1934  - October 1934)

  1. Ri Kwang
  2. Negotiations with Wu Yi-cheng
  3. The Battle of the Dongning County Town
  4. A Comment on Ultra-Democracy in the Army
  5. Operation Macu
  6. Arsenals in the Thick Forest
  7. An Immortal Flower

Chapter 9: The 1st North-Manchuria Expedition (October 1934  - February 1935)

  1. The Korean People's Revolutionary Army
  2. The Haves and the Have-nots
  3. Crossing the Laoyeling Mountains
  4. The Sound of a Harmonica Ringing Across Ningan
  5. The Snowstorm in the Tianqiaoling Mountains
  6. In the Bosom of the People

Chapter 10: Faith in Our Power  (February 1935 - June 1935)

  1. A Raging Whirlwind
  2. A Polemic at Dahuangwai
  3. Revolutionaries Born of the Young Communist League
  4. An Answer to the Atrocities at Sidaogou
  5. The Seeds of the Revolution sown over a Wide Area

Chapter 11: At the Threshold of Revolution (June 1935 - March 1936)

  1. Meeting with my Comrades-in-Arms in North Manchuria
  2. Strange Relationship
  3. On Lake Jingbo
  4. My Comrades-in-Arms to the North; I to the South
  5. Choe Hyon, a Veteran General

Chapter 12: A Spring in Revolution  March 1936 - May 1936

  1. The Birth of a New Division
  2. 20 Yuan
  3. Revolutionary Comrade-in-Arms Zhang Wei-hua (1)
  4. Revolutionary Comrade-in-Arms Zhang Wei-hua (2)
  5. The Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland

Chapter 13: To Mount Baiktu  (May 1936 - August 1936)

  1. We Struck Commander Wang and Won Over Wan Shun
  2. In the Dear Walled Town
  3. Premiere of The Sea of Blood
  4. The Women's Brigade
  5. The Secret Camp on Mt. Paektu
  6. Patriotic Landowner Kim Jong Bu

Chapter 14: The People of Jangbaik  (September 1936 - December 1936)

  1. West Jiandao
  2. The Sound of the Watermill
  3. Lee Jae Sun
  4. With the Comrades-in-Arms in Southern Manchuria
  5. Samil Wolgan

Chapter 15: Expanding Covert Actions  (December 1936 - March 1937)

  1. The Indomitable Fighter, Park Tal
  2. Homeland Party Working Committee
  3. Fighting at the Foot of Mt. Paektu
  4. Tojong Park In Jin
  5. On Chondoism, a National Religion
  6. Living Apart from the People Is Impossible
  7. A Written Warranty for a Good Citizen

Chapter 16: Yalu River Crossings  (March 1937 - May 1937)

  1. Expedition to Fusong
  2. Hundreds of Miles from Xiaotanghe at One Go
  3. Guardsmen
  4. Across the Whole of Korea
  5. Kwon Yong Byok
  6. Events to Which I Could Not Remain Indifferent
  7. The Mother of the Guerrilla Army

Chapter 17: Korea Is Not Dead!  (May 1937 - June 1937)

  1. Flames of Pochonbo (1)
  2. Flames of Pochonbo (2)
  3. Joint Celebration of Army and People at Diyangxi
  4. Photographs and Memory
  5. The Battle of Jiansanfeng and Kim Suk Won
  6. The Boys who Took up Arms
  7. My Thought About Revolutionary Obligation

Chapter 18: In Midst of Sino-Japan War  (July 1937 - November 1937)

  1. To Meet a New Situation
  2. Kim Ju Hyon
  3. Getting the Peasantry Prepared
  4. Choe Chun Guk in His Days in the Independent Brigade
  5. The September Appeal
  6. My Experience of the "Hyesan Incident"

Chapter 19: Overcoming Tribulations

  1. The Matanggou Secret Camp
  2. The Weasel Hunter
  3. The Last of the Independence Army Forces
  4. Village Headman Wang and police Chief Wang
  5. Expedition to Rehe
  6. My Meeting with Yang Jing-yu
  7. Grandma Lee Pok Ik
  8. In the Forest of Nanpaizi

Chapter 20: Raising A New Flag For Revolution  December 1938 - June 1939

  1. Arduous March
  2. The Lesson of Qingfeng "Women Spy Incident"   
  3. The Salt Incident
  4. Battle of Taehongdan
  5. The Tano Festival at Yushidong
  6. Women Fighters and Revolutionary Honor

Chapter 21: Large Unit Encirclement (July 1939 - March 1940)

  1. A Woman Came to Visit the Secret Camp
  2. Chinese Landlord Liu Tong-shi
  3. Confronted by Hundreds of Thousands of "Expedition" Troops
  4. Oh Jung Hup and His 7th Regiment
  5. The Man from Phyongahn Province
  6. "Let Us Defend the Soviet Union with Arms"
  7. The End of the "Maeda Expedition" Force

Chapter 22: Defending the Base of Revolution (April 1940 - December 1940)

  1. At Xiaohaerbaling
  2. Looking Forward to a Bright Future
  3. A Message from the Comintern
  4. The Autumn of 1940  
  5. My Memories of Wei Zheng-min

Chapter 23: Alliance with International Anti-Imperialism Camps (January 1941 - July 1942)

  1. The Khabarovsk Conference
  2. Remembering Kim Chaik
  3. My Love and Marriage
  4. The Days of Small-Unit Actions
  5. Trust and Treachery
  6. Formation of the International Allied Forces
  7. With My Comrades-in-Arms
  8. Fighters from Northern Manchuria
  9. Nurturing the Root of the Revolution

Chapter 24: All-out Anti-Japan War  (August 1942 - August 1945)

  1. In Anticipation of the Day of Liberation
  2. The Flames of National Resistance
  3. The Breakthrough in the Operations Against Japan
  4. The Spirit of the Nation
  5. For Unity with the Anti-Japanese Patriotic Forces
  6. Across the Korea Strait
  7. The Final Campaign
  8. The Triumphal Return

Appendix:  Photo Gallery and a Video