Thomas P. Whitney
Birth date: January 26, 1917
Died: December 02, 2007
Thomas P. Whitney's Books
bookshelves: winter-20142015, nobel-laureate, slavic, soviet, published-1968, politics, film-only, lit-richer, philosophy, prisoner, sciences, weapon-evolution, mystery-thriller, moscow, deadlines-whoosing-by, execution, author-in-the-mirror, betrayal, casual-violence, censorship, chess, classic, c...
bookshelves: autumn-2012, slavic, nonfiction, ouch, nobel-laureate, fraudio, epic-proportions, autobiography-memoir, boo-scary, bullies, execution, gangsters, holocaust-genocide, lifestyles-deathstyles, philosophy, politics, published-1958, racism, recreational-homicide, true-grime Read from Septe...
Solzhenitsyn systematically goes through the horrors of the Soviet slave labour camps, one of the blackest chapters in world history. I read this book as a teenager, not long after it came out, and I was appalled that my parents had presented the Soviet Union as anything other than a monstrosity. Fo...