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The Long Bridge Out of the gulags Pub. Date Series Publisher Location Title Author Introduction BIC-code Category Format
29th October 2010 Forthcoming Sandstone Press Ltd Dingwall, United Kingdom Urszula Muskus Peter Muskus BM Biographical memoir Paperback 198 x 129 mm Extent 352pp RRP £8.99 ISBN-13 978-1-905207-55-8 Distribution BookSource 50 Cambuslang Road Cambuslang Glasgow G32 8NB United Kingdom (T) 0845 370 0063 (F) 0845 370 0064 (E) customerservice@booksource.net Urszula Muskus (1903-1972) spent sixteen years as a prisoner of Stalinist Russia. Torn from her industrious, middle class life following her husband’s arrest, she was packed into a rail wagon and sent eastwards into Kazakhstan and Siberia. Cast into an alien world of political prisoners and depraved criminals she had to learn to survive to the best of her ability. ‘The Long Bridge’ was written over a period of fourteen years while she lived with her daughter in London, and translated after her death. Rich in stories of love and parting, long train journeys and forced marches on foot, other women prisoners, violent guards and bandit molls, it comes from a strong spirit who looked on her world with an unwavering eye. Urszula Muskus (1903-1972) was a prisoner in the Gulag Archipelago for sixteen years. Born in Poland her life eventually ended in Leicester, England, with her written account of those years in fragments around her. Urszula’s is a unique voice speaking of terrible times that are still close to our own. She brings an uplifting view of the world and human nature born of her natural compassion and struggle to survive.
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