[Rob Attar]

Hello all. I've just finished reading The Forsaken by Tim Tzouliadis and I'd very much recommend it to anyone with an interest in either Soviet or American 20th-century history. The book deals with the fate of American civilians who went to work in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and then got caught up in the terror. What I found most surprising was the lack of American protest about the mistreatment of hundreds if not thousands of essentially US citizens (although many had their passports confiscated).

Has anyone else read it and if so what did you think? An interesting point one reviewer made was that a similar book could be written about Britons who ended up in the gulag. There would have been a fair few and it's not something that's been covered as far as I know.