The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom - Softcover

Slavomir Rawicz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 094113086X ISBN 13: 9780941130868

Publisher: Lyons Press, 1984

Synopsis

Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19 November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to 25 years in the Gulags.
After a 3-month journey to Siberia in the depths of winter he escaped with 6 companions, realising that to stay in the camp meant almost certain death. In June 1941 they crossed the trans-Siberian railway and headed south, climbing into Tibet and freedom 9 months later in March 1942 after travelling on foot through some of the harshest regions in the world, including the Gobi Desert.
First published in 1956, this is one of the world's greatest true stories of adventure, survival and escape.

About this title

Review:

Positively Homeric. (Cyril Connolly, The Times)

Book Description:

A renowned all-time epic of endurance - reissued with a new cover

About this edition

• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 094113086X
• ISBN 13: 9780941130868
• Binding: Paperback