"Everything in this book is fictional and everything is true," wrote Victor Serge in the epigraph to Men in Prison. "I have attempted, through literary creation, to bring out the general meaning and human content of a personal experience." The author of Men in Prison served five years in French penitentiaries (1912-1917) for the crime of "criminal association"--in fact for his courageous refusal to testify against his old comrades, the infamous...