For an extended read, you may try "King Rat" by James Clavell - same author of the current hit show "Shogun".

The book is set in the same Changi PoW camp where the author was held during WWII. The character Lieutenant-Colonel Larkin is based off Lieutenant-Colonel E. E. "Weary" Dunlop who was the real life surgeon using these tools for creating artificial limbs amongst other things and whom Clavell knew and presumably Bradley too.

It's not exactly a cheery read but very much an inspiring one in terms of survival, ingenuity, and moral complexity.