The Critchlows have rendered a signal service by providing attention, access, and background to this historically important literature.

John Earl Haynes, author of Early Cold War Spies

These accounts by largely forgotten figures [offer] a strength in the face of the inversion of truth and rationality that is incomprehensible.

Tim Marchman, New York Sun

This book provides shocking insight into the workings of communism and, therefore, into the Cold War itself.

Conservativenet

These stories should not only be read for the lessons they can teach us about socialism. They should be read because they are great literature, human drama, and an inspiration to everyone who will ever face adversity.

Conservative Monitor

The stories told and retold here...make for painful but necessary reading.... What they have to say we must never forget.

First Things

The narratives collected...exemplify...the abuses of human rights in Communist states and act...as landmarks in...history...

The Russian Review