A Hidden World: My Nine Years in the Soviet Gulag
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (867 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00KI1P830 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 342 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
At the time of his arrest in 1947, Rupert was working from the British Embassy in Budapest. A Hidden World, first published in 1963, recounts the nine years spent by Hungarian Raphael Rupert in the prison camps of Soviet Russia - the Gulag. His trial, based on a presumed confession of acting as a spy, ended in his sentence to Camp 10 for 25 years of 'forced labor.' A Hidden World describes the daily life and endless brutalities endured in the campsthe numbing winter cold, the mindless drudgery in the factories, the harsh treatment by guards and prison gangs, the lack of food and medical care. Finally, after nine years, Rupert was released and able to emigrate to Great Britain, eventually settling in Ireland.
"Amazing book about Soviet Gulag" according to Bogdan Bodnarescu. This is an amazing book to all accounts as you read through it.I was looking for a book that would describe the horrors of Russian concentration camps.The author manages to describes his life and suffering, but even if you realize the horrors of what all like him must have been through, his style is so good that it will at the same time make you think about other things like how was this possible.. Five Stars Very good. The description of life then wa very well done.