A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War II
A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War II A searing, personal literary account of life in a Soviet prison campIn 1940, Gustaw Herling was arrested after he joined an…
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A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War II
A searing, personal literary account of life in a Soviet prison campIn 1940, Gustaw Herling was arrested after he joined an underground Polish army that fell into Russian hands. In A World Apart, he tells of the people he was imprisoned with, the hardships they endured, and the indomitable spirit and will that allowed them to survive. He was sent to a northern Russian labor camp, where he spent the two most terrible years of his life.
"Should be published and read in every country." -Albert Camus "In psychological and moral penetration and artistic power A World Apart equals Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Above all, he creates portraits of how people - deprived of basic human necessities and forced to worked at hard labor - can come together to form a community that offers hope in the face of hopelessness, that offers life when even the living have no life left.