My Three Years Inside Russia: The true story of a German soldier, taken prisoner after World War II by the Russians and banished to Siberia

My Three Years Inside Russia, first published in 1958, is the moving story of a young German soldier captured by the Russians during World War II, and sent to a series of labor camps deep in the Soviet Union. Fighting the cold, sickness, the back-breaking labor, lack of food, and indifferent guards, the soldier, known only as 'Comrade X,' survives through prayer, and his deeply felt Christianity. As he states, “Siberia was a hard experience but it was also a good one,” serving to renew both his faith and his desire to return to his family and begin a new life. In November 1948, Comrade X and several thousand other prisoners-of-war were released and began a months long trip – on which many men did not survive – back to Germany.