To live now and not to know this work is to be a kind of historical fool missing a crucial part of the consciousness of the age * Guardian * The ferocious testimony of a man of genius * London Magazine * What gives the book its value is the sound it gives out; the harsh roar give out by a wise and experienced animal as a warning that the herd is in danger * Sunday Telegraph * He is one of the towering figures of the age as a writer, as moralist, as hero... in The Gulag Archipelago he has acheived the impossible * Observer * It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century * New Yorker *