JUST SEND ME WORD
By Orlando Figes
Penguin. 300 pages. £9.99
ISBN 978 0 241 955 901
Orlando Figes, when researching the Stalinist gulags, came across a cache of thousands of love letters written between 1946 and 1954 by a couple separated by war and injustice.
He decided to tell their story. I don’t normally review history books — that isn’t my brief. But here is a story as extraordinary as many in fiction and with a capacity to grip the reader to the end.
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