{"product_id":"soviet-internment","title":"Soviet Internment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUsing a microhistory based on a unique set of life-writing sources, this book provides an unparalleled insight into the Soviet POW experience during the Second World War.\u003c\/b\u003e It reconstructs key moments in the life of former Italian POW Umberto Montini, who was captured by the Soviet Army in 1942, interned in a prisoners’ hospital in Mordovia, and then repatriated to Italy in 1945.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough an analysis of Umberto’s copious life-writings, \u003ci\u003eSoviet Internment \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the testimony of a surviving WWII prisoner, whose memories were haunted by the fury of war and whose body carried deep physical and emotional traces but who nonetheless felt a nostalgic attachment to his place of internment. The book brings theoretical questions about memory, trauma, and European people’s political trajectories into sustained contact with an individual’s specific experience, organically prompting a reconsideration of key 20th-century events in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54882605334872,"sku":"9781350507746","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350507746_4b9627c7-ff1d-4cf5-8ae0-44eed96e0abb.jpg?v=1778663754","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/soviet-internment","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}