{"product_id":"9781930972810","title":"The Devil's Grinder Moara Dracilor: Poems of Hope and Despair from the Forced Labor Camps of Post-WWII Communist Romania. A dual-language Edition.","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of Poems—offered as a dual-language English-Romanian edition—together with a critical Exposé by the translators, a Preface by the author, a Chronicle and Biography, conveys to the reader a very personal tale of a human tragedy of unspeakable horrors the author endured alongside tens of thousands of other political prisoners at forced labor camps, so-called \"Gulags\" at the Danube-Black Sea Canal (the \"Canal\") during Romania's Communist regime after WWII. This book is a \u003ci\u003eZeitzeugnis\u003c\/i\u003e—a witness of the time—an account not only of a reprehensible past time but a very pertinent manifest for hope for younger generations everywhere in the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is based on \u003ci\u003eMoara Dracilor\u003c\/i\u003e by Mircea Ionescu-Quintus, published in Romanian in 1999 by Editura Ion Creanga S.A., Romania. The new title is a dual-language (English-Romanian) edition, with a new Foreword, a new Preface by the author, a new About the Translators, seven additional Poems, three new Illustrations, and a new author Biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a must-read for students and anyone interested in politics, political history, Eastern-European history, Communist regimes,  Romania, Romanian history, Romanian politics, History of Political Oppression, Testimonial Literature, Poetry, Eastern-European poetry, Romanian poetry, and socio-political poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Parmenides Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057932943600,"sku":"9781930972810","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781930972810_p0.jpg?v=1763638479","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781930972810","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}