books by Kathleen Gleeson (freedom mensch gulag)

books by Kathleen Gleeson

books:

Man Is Wolf to Man
Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson

Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1998

1 review
Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson

University of California Press, 2003

Interesting but not as insightful as the author's first book
Skip this book and just read "Kolyma Tales" or "Man is Wolf to Man." The author is genuine and sincere but rambles on endlessly about information that is quite boring and not pertaining to his life in the Gulag. It was difficult to follow his ideas after chapter 2.

Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag

32 reviews
Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson

University of California Press, 1999

An unbelievably bleak tale of survival in the Gulag
Janusz Bardach, who became a plastic surgeon in Iowa City, Iowa in 1972, recounts his experiences in the Gulag in this bleak tale of survival reminiscent of Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. A secular Jewish man and supporter of Stalin and communism living in Poland In 1939, he and his family fear their future as Germany's military forces are set up along the border. He is eventually ...