The ice road: an epic journey from the Stalinist labor camps to freedom

Acknowledgements

Foreword

1. Before the Havoc

2. The End of My Childhood

3. Flying the Nest

4. Interlude with Father

5. The Lesser Evil

6. The Sun Is on the Wrong Side

7. Siberia—You Will Get Used to It, or Else

8. He Who Does Not Work, Does Not Eat!

9. The Ice Road

10. Changing Fortunes

11. The Beginning of the End

12. On the Raft

13. Journey South Down the Volga

14. Wrong Turnings, Wrong Stops

15. The Long Haul

16. Chirakchi—A Respite

17. The Short Haul

18. Unpredictable Consequences

19. Chimkent—A Restricted City

20. Over and Out!

Epilogue—by Danuta

Historical Horizon: The Soviet Deportations and the Second Polish Corps

Interview with the Author

Reading Group Guide