Amazon.com Review
Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to the Siberian Gulag along with other captive Poles, Finns, Ukranians, Czechs, Greeks, and even a few English, French, and American unfortunates who had been caught up in the fighting. A year later, he and six comrades from various countries escaped from a labor camp in Yakutsk and made their way, on foot, thousands of miles south to British India, where Rawicz reenlisted in the Polish army and fought against the Germans.
The Long Walk recounts that adventure, which is surely one of the most curious treks in history.
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Review
''One of the most amazing, heroic stories of this or any other time.'' --
Chicago Tribune ''A poet with steel in his soul.'' --
New York Times ''It is a book filled with the spirit of human dignity and the courage of men seeking freedom.'' --
Los Angeles Times''One of the epic treks of the human race . . . His account is so filled with despair and suffering it is almost unreadable. But it must be read--and re-read.'' -- Sebastian Junger, author of
The Perfect Storm ''Positively Homeric.'' --
Times (London)
''You'll never complain about blisters again!'' --
BackPacker ''
The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget.'' --Stephen Ambrose, biographer, historian, and
New York Times bestselling author
''Like a swimmer carefully counting breaths, John Lee narrates this astonishing adventure as if every word were a step on the long trek, the next phrase a precipice. His words resonate with Rawicz's text, savoring its long distances and carefully accommodating his pace to the tempo of the trek. Published originally in 1956, this timeless tale is given new life in Lee's fresh narration.'' --
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