One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet Gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War 2. Although innocent, he is sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp.  This remarkable book outlines the cruel realities of Soviet labor camps.