This remarkable volume was published by the Memorial Human Rights Centre, a Russian civil rights group . It tells the stories of 16 men – mostly members of the intelligentsia, and loyal Soviet subjects – who were imprisoned in the Gulag camps, through the letters they sent back to their wives and children.
My Father’s Letters: Correspondence from the Soviet Gulag
£30.00
Edition:Hardback978178378528504/03/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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Marr has a gift of presenting complex issues with clarity; here he uses a diverse cast to show where we are and how we got here.
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged
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The marvellous Attlee takes us on the journey, through space and time, of one violin, whose voice "was powerful enough to unbuckle joints". Cremona, Russia, Venice, Alpine forests... (Her la... read more
Lev’s Violin: An Italian Adventure
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A meticulous history of a Highland family that acquired huge estates in Pembrokeshire by marriage and in Carmarthenshire by an inheritance. Undoubtedly academic, rather disappointingly illus... read more
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His 'Shortest History of Germany' was a great bestseller a few years ago. What will the Scots, Welsh and Irish say about this?
The Shortest History of England
Hardback £12.99