Solitary Confinement

<p>Parachuted into France as a British secret agent Christopher Burney was arrested by the Gestapo and thrown into a solitary confinement cell in a prison outside Paris. There he spent 526 days in complete isolation. With little human contact and nothing to distract him Burney developed a mental and spiritual regime that enabled him not just to survive but to develop an internal resilience that enabled him to survive his subsequent time in Buchenwald concentration camp. </p><p></p><p>Out of print for over 40 years and virtually unknown outside the U.K. <em>Solitary Confinement </em>has quietly developed a reputation as a modern masterpiece of contemplative literature. As the critic Frank Kermode wrote The courage and the intellectual integrity Christopher Burney are far beyond what most of us would expect of ourselves.</p>