TY - JOUR T1 - Book reviews: Within the Whirlwind JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 385 LP - 385 DO - 10.3399/bjgp09X420824 VL - 59 IS - 562 AU - John Brooks Y1 - 2009/05/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/59/562/385.abstract N2 - Within the Whirlwind Eugenia Ginzburg Harcourt 1981 PB 423 978-0151975174 Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg (1904–1977) was a teacher and journalist who wrote her autobiographical novel in two parts after her release from prison in the USSR. The novel covers her arrest, interrogation, and imprisonment (1934–1939). Journey Into The Whirlwind was first published in the West in Italy in 1967. The second part of the novel, Within the Whirlwind, deals with her captivity in the Kolyma in Eastern Siberia until her eventual release and pardon in 1955. It is here in the Kolyma that she was forced to do hard labour but does eventually find work as a nurse and then as a teacher. It is also here that she gets to know and admire Dr Anton Walter. They fall in love and marry when they are released from prison. She is amazed at … ER -