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Week of September 29, 1974

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ALIVE: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Piers Paul Read
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ALIVE: The Story of the Andes Survivors

by Piers Paul Read · Lippincott

23 wks on list

True story about how a group of people who survived an airplane crash in the Andes had toresort to cannibalism in order to stay alive. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO

by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn · Harper & Row, Cloth

14 wks on list

Drawing on his own experiences before, during, and after his 11 years of incarceration and exile, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims, we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations. Yet we also witness astounding moral courage, the incorruptibility with which the occasional individual or a few scattered groups, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. Solzhenitsyn's genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.