Shallow Graves in Siberia
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Shallow Graves in Siberia

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Shallow Graves in Siberia

About this book

Michael Krupa was born into a poor family in south-west Poland, and in his teens was accepted into a Jesuit seminary. He ran away before taking his final vows and joined the army. Soon afterwards, the German tanks rolled into Poland and easily defeated her antiquated forces - the Polish cavalry were armed with sabres. Krupa survived Hitler's invasion, but was arrested in Soviet-occupied eastern Poland and accused of spying. After enduring torture in Moscow's notorious Lubianka prison, he was sentenced to ten years' corrective labour and deported to the Pechora Gulag.Most prisoners there were worked and starved to death within a year. But Krupa managed again to escape, and in the chaos following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union made one of the most extraordinary journeys of the war - from Siberia to safety in Afghanistan. Krupa's Jesuit training had given him an inner strength and resilience which enabled him to survive in the face of appalling brutality and cruelty. Luck and the kindness of strangers helped him complete his epic journey to freedom.

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Information

Publisher
Birlinn
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781843410126
eBook ISBN
9780857900234

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Map
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter One: Polish Highlander
  9. Chapter Two: Jesuits
  10. Chapter Three: Life in the Monastery
  11. Chapter Four: The Escape
  12. Chapter Five: The Army
  13. Chapter Six: The Search
  14. Chapter Seven: Encounter with the Soviet Authorities
  15. Chapter Eight: The Journey
  16. Chapter Nine: The Lubianka
  17. Chapter Ten: The Journey to Pechora Lager
  18. Chapter Eleven: Pechora Camp
  19. Chapter Twelve: Escapes and Punishments
  20. Chapter Thirteen: A New Career
  21. Chapter Fourteen: The Escape
  22. Chapter Fifteen: A Continuing Journey
  23. Chapter Sixteen: Execution
  24. Chapter Seventeen: Sad Farewell
  25. Chapter Eighteen: On to Tashkent
  26. Chapter Nineteen: Tashkent: Black Market, Soviet Style
  27. Chapter Twenty: Tashkent to Samarkand
  28. Chapter Twenty-One: The Road to Karshi
  29. Chapter Twenty-Two: The Shepherd’s Story
  30. Chapter Twenty-Three: Karshi to Kerki
  31. Chapter Twenty-Four: The Magic of Freedom
  32. Postscript
  33. About the Author
  34. Copyright