"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. On 19th November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to 25 years in the Gulags. Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. But it must be read-and re-read."-Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm"The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget."-Stephen Ambrose The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom. He and his companions crossed an entire continent-the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and then the Himalayas-with nothing but an ax, a knife, and a week's worth of food.His account is so filled with despair and suffering it is almost unreadable. None of them, however, has achieved the extraordinary feat Rawicz has recorded. Shackleton, Franklin, Amundsen.history is filled with people who have crossed immense distances and survived despite horrific odds. (6 X 9, 256 pages, map)"One of the epic treks of the human race.
Their march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India is a remarkable statement about man's desire to be free.With a new Afterword by the author, and the author's Foreword to the Polish edition, this new edition of The Long Walk is destined to outrank its classic status.
In 1941, the author and a small group of fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp.
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