By Iwao Peter Sano
This gulag memoir tells the story of a Japanese American in a Siberia right after WWII ended. Technically, the author calls this a POW camp, but I think it aligns with the gulag memoirs in description. Sano's strength is description - he does a wonderful job describing the details of camp life.
"Sadness, anger, and despair over this turn of events was more than I could bear. I felt as if I had been thrown into a dark, cold, and bottomless pit from which there was no escape." Pg. 39
"While lying in bed one day, I thought abou the book All Quiet on the Western Front. In the book, one of the soldiers wishing to be removed form the front lines bribed the doctor and even set a burning match to the thermometer to make it appear as if he had a fever." Pg. 80
"The Japanese soldier was never taught or trained what action to take as a prisoner other than to take his own life. To live on in captivity was simply not in the realm of possibility to the Imperial Japanese Army." 86
Book 18
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