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Gustav Herling's remarkable account of his experiences in a Soviet labour camp during the Second World War was instantly hailed as a classic. In one of the most moving and important books in the literature of oppression, he relates the horrors of life at Kargpol camp, where he was imprisoned for one and a half years.
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"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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Gustav 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'.
Anne Appelbaum studied Russian history and literature at Yale and International Relations at the London School of Economics and St Antony's College, Oxford. She has been a writer at the Economist, foreign and deputy editor at the Spectator and columnist for the Evening Standard and Sunday Telegraph. She is now a columnist and a member of the editorial board for the Washington Post. She is the author of the Pulitzer prize-winning Gulag: A History (Penguin, 2003).
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0434357103
- ISBN 13 9780434357109
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages270
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