Beria's Garden: A Slave Laborer's Experiences in the Soviet Utopia
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1960. A detailed account of the author's post-war imprisonment in the Soviet Union for "counter-revolutionary" activities. Parvilahti (b. Unto Ilmari Boman) was a Finnish photograph and businessman who served in the Finnish SS during WWII. Arrested in 1944 by the secret police, he spent the next decade in Soviet forced labor camps and prisons, including Siberia, before being released in 1954.
8vo. Cloth boards, 286 pp., dust jacket. Book is in near fine condition; label ghost and owner's name to ffep. Some wear to the rear jacket fold, otherwise about near fine. Item #15119
Price: $45.00
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