{"product_id":"2026100009792-secondhand-a-childhood-in-prison","title":"A Childhood In Prison","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st uk ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most harrowing memoirs to emerge from the Soviet era, A Childhood in Prison recounts the extraordinary and devastating true story of Pyotr Yakir, the son of a Red Army general who was arrested during Stalin's Great Purge and condemned to spend the formative years of his life within the brutal confines of the Soviet Gulag. Arrested at the age of fourteen following his father's execution in 1937, Yakir chronicles seventeen years of imprisonment, navigating a world of extraordinary cruelty, moral complexity, and improbable human resilience with a directness that is both disarming and deeply affecting.\n\nEdited and introduced by the eminent historian Robert Conquest — whose own landmark work on Stalinist terror provides an invaluable scholarly framework — this memoir stands as a vital primary document of one of the twentieth century's darkest chapters. Yakir's voice is unflinching and unsentimental, presenting the machinery of totalitarian oppression as seen through the eyes of a child forced to become a man behind bars. The broader themes of survival, identity, and the corrosive power of state terror resonate long after the final page, leaving the reader to contemplate what it truly means to grow up in the shadow of an all-consuming tyranny.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203285786843,"sku":"2026100009792-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/81f9e8e6-b294-42ea-aecf-74653b6ec025.png?v=1788147570","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009792-secondhand-a-childhood-in-prison","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}