“Cannot fail to arouse bitterness and pain in the heart of the reader. A literary and political event of the first magnitude.”
–New Statesman
“Stark . . . the story of how one falsely accused convict and his fellow prisoners survived or perished in an arctic slave labor camp after the war.”
–Time
“Both as a political tract and as a literary work, it is in the Doctor Zhivago category.”
–Washington Post
“Dramatic . . . outspoken . . . graphically detailed . . . a moving human record.”
–Library Journal
