Cannibal Island : Death in a Siberian Gulag

"Even for a reader like myself, who has leafed through thousands of pages of documents and writings on Stalinist terror, what Werth presents here comes as a numbing experience. This is a chapter from the saga of the 'second,' or 'hidden,' Gulag, that is, the forcible removal into the Soviet interior of millions of undesirables.... Werth has given us in this slender volume a profound insight into a human-made human catastrophe of major proportions." Book jacket.

Nicolas Werth is a research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France.