Seven For The Run

"For a political prisoner, an attempt to escape from the uranium mines was treated in the communist judicial system as high treason. A political prisoner was obviously going divulge information about the mines to the American and British intelligence services. This was high treason. High treason earned the 'highest penalty', as it was called in the courts. The highest penalty was hanging." "Seven for the Run" is the gripping, true story of a daring escape from a communist prison camp during the height of the Cold War. Sensitively and movingly told by one of the escapees, Ivan Pluhař, the narrative is a suspenseful account of the discipline, careful planning, and wily ingenuity of a cadre of political prisoners desperate to escape long terms of imprisonment in a communist uranium mine in western Czechoslovakia. Pluhař tells the harrowing story of his arrest, interrogation, and imprisonment for underground activities against the Soviet-backed Marxist regime.