Deportation and Exile: Poles in the Soviet Union, 1939-48 (Studies in Russian and East European History and Society) by Keith Sword
Deportation and Exile describes the fate of hundreds of thousands of Poles - men, women and children - deported to Soviet territory by Stalin's security agencies between 1939 and 1948. Amnestied in 1941, recruited to Polish units formed on Soviet soil, tens of thousands made their exit into Persia in 1942. The rest either made their way back to Poland as combat troops, having been recruited to a second, communist-led army in 1943-44, or else awaited formal repatriation agreements concluded towards the end of the war.
Dr Sword was Reader at London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies. I found his book to be the invaluable academic overview of a subject more familiar from survivor memoirs. That being said I did not enjoy paying over £40 for it back in 1994 (the hardback is now over £60 - how much DOES it cost to bind a book?!?). This price is inexcusable! The link takes you to the much more reasonably priced recent paperback edition, and is very highly recommended.
(If you have access to an academic library, there is a review of this title in Slavic Review, Vol 55, No 2, Summer 1996,p473)
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