Arrest and Exile

<p><strong>Arrest and Exile</strong> first published in 1941 is the story of Olga Kochanska an American citizen who was arrested in Poland by the secret police transported to Siberia in a freight car and imprisoned in a labor camp part of the infamous Soviet gulag system. Kochanska's experiences are detailed from her interrogations by the N. K. V. D. her treatment at the hands of the Russian guards to her work details her fellow inmates of many nationalities and religions the numbing cold and her eventual release to freedom in the west. Well-written by noted author Lilian Mowrer <em>Arrest and Exile </em>is an important-and sometimes heartbreaking-part of the body of literature coming from those who survived the gulag.</p>