{"product_id":"9781350507746","title":"Soviet Internment: Memory, Nostalgia, and the POW Experience","description":"Author: Galmarini, Maria Cristina\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781350507746\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 16 Oct 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 152 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eduring the Second World War.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eIt 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\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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46655858213022,"sku":"UBD-9781350507746","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781350507746.jpg?v=1774835651","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781350507746","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}