A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War II

by Gustaw Herling, Andrzej Ciolkosz (Translator), Bertrand Russell (Preface by)

Overview

In 1940, Gustav Herling was arrested after he joined an underground Polish army that fell into Russian hands. He was sent to a northern Russian labour camp, where he spent the two most horrible years of his life. In this book, he tells of the people he was imprisoned with, the hardships they endured, and the indomitable spirit and will that allowed them to survive. Above all, he creates a portrait of how people - deprived of food, clothing, proper medical care, and forced to work at hard labour - 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101161746
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/01/1996
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	284
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Gustaw Herling was born in 1919 in Kielce, Poland. After the war, he lived in London and Munich, finally settling in Naples. He was one of the founding editors of Kultura, a magazine conceived as "a forum for independent thought and imagination."

Editorial Reviews

"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 House of the Dead, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz." -Louse Begley, New York Times Book Review

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