A Tangled Web are memoirs that Eric Battersby wrote in the latter part of his life. It takes the reader from when he was sent to Burma as a 19-year-old police cadet in 1935 to his transition from young policeman to becoming the aide de camp (ADC) to the Governor of Burma in 1940 and his subsequent exodus on foot from Burma after the Japanese invaded Burma and World War II began in the Far East.