{"product_id":"soviet-internment-maria-cristina-galmarini-9781350507739","title":"Soviet Internment: Memory, Nostalgia, and the POW Experience","description":"\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\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria Cristina Galmarini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350507733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350507739\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Maria Cristina Galmarini","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424282689791,"sku":"9781350507739","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_55f012e2-b09d-4bc5-ad64-0315f8595e09.jpg?v=1761529380","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/soviet-internment-maria-cristina-galmarini-9781350507739","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}