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Five Years and Two Months in the Sighet Penitentiary

Five Years and Two Months in the Sighet Penitentiary May 7, 1950-July 5, 1955 - East European Monographs

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Publisher's Synopsis

A distinguished Romanian historian describes the five years he spent incarcerated as a political prisoner, and how the will to survive and return to his family helped him through the ordeal. Giurescu comments particularly on the mentality of the Communist officials who determined prisoners' fates.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780880333030
Publisher: East European Monographs
Imprint: Columbia University Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 208
Weight: 380g
Height: 221mm
Width: 143mm
Spine width: 19mm