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...
From Orlando Figes international bestselling author of A People's Tragedy Just Send Me Word is the moving true story of two young Russians whose love survived Stalin's 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...