A searing, personal literary account of life in a Soviet prison Camp In 1940, Gustaw Herling was arrested after he joined an underground Polish army that fell into Russian hands.
Above all, he creates portraits of how.
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.
A searing, personal literary account of life in a Soviet prison Camp In 1940, Gustaw Herling was arrested after he joined an underground Polish army that fell into Russian hands