One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The book "A World Apart" contains the author's recollections beginning from his time spent incarcerated in the former USSR Gulag labour camp in Yertsevo in Arkhangelsk Oblast, and a description of the journey he took to join the Polish divisions forming in Persia. Written 10 years before Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", it brought him international acclaim but also criticism from Soviet sympathizers.