We Were the Lucky Ones

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'Like being swung heart first into history . . . A brave and mesmerising debut' Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife From the jazz clubs of Paris and Kraków's most brutal prison, to the ports of Northern Africa and the farthest reaches of the Siberian gulag, We Were the Lucky Ones expresses how in the darkest of times the human spirit can find a way to survive, and even triumph.