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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Good. Good condition. (World War 2, Prisoners of War, Russia Poland, Biography) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very good. x, 245, [1] pages. Wraps. Map. Foreword by Ronald Downing. Introduction to the Polish Edition. Afterword to the 1997 Edition. This book was originally published in 1956. S awomir Rawicz (1 September 1915-5 April 2004) was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the NKVD after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland. In a ghost-written book called The Long Walk, he claimed that in 1941 he and six others had escaped from a Siberian Gulag camp and begun a long journey south on foot (4, 000 mi). They traveled through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas to finally reach British India in the winter of 1942. In May 2009, Witold Gli ski, a Polish World War II veteran living in the UK, came forward to claim that the story of Rawicz was true. Rupert Mayne, a British intelligence officer in wartime India, claimed to his son to have interviewed three emaciated men in Calcutta in 1942, who claimed to have escaped from Siberia. In the early 1950s, Slavomir "Slav" Rawicz, who died aged 88, met a journalist, Ronald Downing. So taken was Downing with the epic story of Slav's escape from a Siberian labor camp in 1941 that he persuaded him to write about his experiences. In 1955, The Long Walk was published. It was the story of a good and gentle man caught up in the savageries that followed Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, when that country was partitioned between the Nazis and the Soviet Union. Slav's account started in the notorious Lubyanka prison in Moscow, as he was sentenced to 25 years' hard labor for "spying", after the 12 months of interrogation that had followed his arrest on November 19 1939. Dispatched to Siberia, he and thousands of others were transported in open cattle trucks, in sub-zero temperatures, to the end of the line at Irkutsk, where, chained together, they were force-marched hundreds of miles to Camp 303-which the survivors had to build from scratch.
I have given this book as gifts and lent it out many times. it is really a great book of a great man told very humbly. I think it is the kind of book that makes you hope when all hope is gone.
Daniel K
Dec 29, 2011
Excellent Book
Very amazing story! A must read. Hard to put down.
Margaret N
Aug 18, 2011
Wonderful Book
I would recommend this book as required reading for young people, because it is truly inspiring, much better than the movie.
Fussyreader
Aug 6, 2009
A Fantastic True Story.
I LOVE this book. Truth is always stranger than fiction. I had read it twice in the past and now my husband requested it for his birthday present. It is simply unbelievable to read all the trials that this man had to endure. It shows the unending strength of the human spirit. It makes one ashamed to think of one's own meagre complaints. It is a book that simply SHOULD be read.
Dustytrails
Dec 11, 2008
A Historical Documentation
Chinese troops were in Tibet in 1941 and these escapees were told about them as they entered Tibet and kept out of their way.
It documents meeting the Yettie and the death of a prisoners trying to go around them in the mountains.
This is a book like no other. It documents ill advised ideas carried out at great cost. In the end ... some made the walk from a Russian Siberian Death work camp to India and the British Army who saved them. It tells of them hoarding bread under their pillows in the hospital after being rescued and their thirty day stabilization ... to start thinking normally after a trip that should have killed all of them.