Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
By Orlando Figes.
Description
A heroic love story and an unprecedented inside view of one of Stalin's most notorious labor camps, based on a remarkable cache of letters smuggled in and out of the Gulag"I went to get the letters for our friends, and couldn't help but feel a little envious, I didn't expect anything for myself. And suddenly―there was my name, and, as if it was alive, your handwriting."In 1946, after five years as a prisoner―first as a Soviet POW in Nazi concentration camps, then as a deportee (falsely accused of treason) in the Arctic Gulag―twenty-nine-year-old Lev Mishchenko unexp...
ISBN(s)
0805095225, 9780805095227
