JUST SEND ME WORD: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag.
Pp. [viii]+334, 8 plates (5 coloured or tinted in part or whole), black & white text illustrations, 3 maps (one double page), source notes: med. 8vo; green boards, spine lettered in white; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased; Allen Lane/Penguin Books, London, 2012. First edition. *'Two Muscovites, Lev and Svetlana. Kept apart for fourteen years by the Second World War and the Gulag, they stayed true to each other and left behind them an astonishing monument to their love: a cache of 1,500 letters exchanged between them as Lev battled to survive in one of Stalin's most notorious labour camps' [wrapper blurb]. Item #180550
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