"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
