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• Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag
Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson

University of California Press, 1999 - 408 pages

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Completely absorbing -- you'll wonder where the time went

To the praise delivered to this book by more knowledgable students of the subject I can only add my appreciation for the absorbing way in which the story is told. It is beautifully written without artifice in an engaging and accessible prose style. It is also one of the few narratives of its nature that I've read which -- while it does not sugar-coat or gloss over horror in any sense -- left me more refreshed and hopeful than completely depressed and hopeless at the end of the book. Beautifully done and honestly related.


Outstanding Narrative of Human Survival with a Twist

What a great story. I couldn't put the book down. It is a view of WW II and Soviet Terror told from a unique perspective. I was enthralled to read the first hand accurate descriptions of human suffering and maladies. Then to my suprise the Author revealed himself to be one of my professors during Medical School! He never talked about this part of his life during my brief and peripheral association with him, and was a hard but just teacher with glimpses of remarkable human tenderness.

The first hand description of vitamin deficiencies was insightful.

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a must for those interested in 20th century history

Great book, finely and gracefully written. You become involved with the characters and follow their tales, even though you don't want to go where they do. Not just for WWII buffs. You could say it is like Anne Frank but with a different ending.






Outstanding and powerful memoir

This book is devastating in its depictions of the gulag's horrors, the bizarre and fascinating societal elements of the gulag, and the courage of its survivors. Bardach endured hell and then converted his experiences into a work worthy of deep contemplation. Although I read his account about a year ago, certain passages are still extraordinarily vivid in my mind -- an effect that few books can deliver. Bardach's memoir compelled me to read more gulag literature. I rank his remarkable contribution ahead of Ginzburg's Journey Into the Whirlwind and behind only Varlam Shalamov's amazing Kolyma Tales.


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Outstanding Narrative of Human Survival with a Twist

What a great story. I couldn't put the book down. It is a view of WW II and Soviet Terror told from a unique perspective. I was enthralled to read the first hand accurate descriptions of human suffering and maladies. Then to my suprise the Author revealed himself to be one of my professors during Medical School! He never talked about this part of his life during my brief and peripheral association with him, and was a hard but just teacher with glimpses of remarkable human tenderness.

The first hand description of vitamin deficiencies was insightful.

Buy this book and read about human courage and survival


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