Writing with a great generosity of spirit, Topolski recounts his wartime odyssey through the communist penal system as he struggled to survive in a Russian gulag. The author is a 76-year-old veteran of the Polish army who was imprisoned at the age of 16 by the Soviets when he tried to sneak into Romania during World War II.
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Writing with a great generosity of spirit, Topolski recounts his wartime odyssey through the communist penal system as he struggled to survive in a Russian gulag. The author is a 76-year-old veteran of the Polish army who was imprisoned at the age of 16 by the Soviets when he tried to sneak into Romania during World War II.
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Add this copy of Without Vodka: Adventures in Wartime Russia to cart. $3.03, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Steerforth Press.
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New. 1586420127. This specific softcover book is in new condition with a cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "ALEKSANDER TOPOLSKI was sixteen years old on the morning of August 24, 1939, when he was called up for military service. In eight days his native Poland would be invaded by the Germans. Shortly after that, the Russians rolled in under the Hitler-Stalin pact, and when Topolski tried to sneak across the border into Romania, he was captured by Soviet border guards. Thus began a more than two-year-long ordeal through the Soviet Union's outrageously absurd penal system. Writing with an unexpected sense of humor and irony and an almost superhuman capacity for recalling fascinating details, Topolski recounts the fight for survival in the gulag. Mendacious NKVD officers, whimsical pickpockets, ruthless youth gang members, wise political prisoners, Polish patriots, unfortunate Uzbechs and countless other unforgettable characters populate this often raucous odyssey. "But it's not for our brains to ponder these things, " someone along Topolski's journey utters, mouthing an old Russian saying, "without vodka you can't figure it out." Ultimately Topolski escapes into Iran to join the Polish 2nd Corps which is being formed there to fight the Germans...but that's another story."; 6.05 X 0.89 X 9.02 inches; 386 pages.
