{"product_id":"9781783785285","title":"My Father's Letters : Correspondence from the Soviet Gulag","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Thomson, Georgia\u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/03\/2021,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Granta Books,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGranta Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Book Classifications: Prisons, Letters\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781783785285\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e'They will live as human beings and die as human beings; and in this alone lies man's eternal and bitter victory over all the grandiose and inhuman forces that ever have been or will be.'Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween the 1930s and 1950s, millions of people were sent to the Gulag in the Soviet Union. My Father's Letters 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. Here are letters illustrated by fathers keen to educate their children in science and natural history; the tragic missives of a former military man convinced that the terrible mistake of his arrest will be rectified; the 'letter' stitched on a bedsheet with a fishbone and smuggled out of a maximum security camp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy Father's Letters is an immediate source of life in prison during Stalin's Great Terror. Almost none of the men writing these letters survived.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39614162829465,"sku":"9781783785285","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781783785285.jpg?v=1616776802","url":"https:\/\/steyningbookshop.info\/products\/9781783785285","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}