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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom [Paperback]

Slavomir Rawicz (Author)
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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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In the camps of the Siberian gulag, friends said it was hopeless. Nevertheless, in the spring of 1942 Slavomir Rawicz and four companions walked into British India, having journeyed four thousand miles by foot over tundra, Gobi, frozen rivers, and Himalayan peaks. A 26-year-old Polish cavalry officer arrested by the Soviets while home on leave in 1939, Rawicz survived on cunning, snake meat, and the kindness of countless strangers. 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. P.E.F. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nice book, Feb 4 2012
This review is from: The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (Hardcover)
This is a nice edition, great paper quality and including a nice map. Good choice of survival story, even if you've seen the movie.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not so true story, Mar 9 2004
This review is from: The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (Paperback)
Odd that Rawicz's Mongolians walk everywhere rather than ride horses, and dress in conical hats (something no one else has observed). Odd that he claims to have gone for 12 days in the Gobi without water - he must have been ready for a beer or two after that. And perhaps he had consumed more than a couple of beers when he met the yetis in the high Himalayas.

It's also odd that Rawicz has refused to authenticate any of his claims and declined to produce records, photographs, witnesses, or the full identity or whereabouts of the other survivors.

I think the bit on the cover, which claims that this is a "true story", may need revising.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Fake, lie, ridiculous., Feb 22 2011
This review is from: Long Walk (Paperback)
For all those who are amazed by this book I have to tell one thing- never take anything for granted. Question everything. You won't eat spoiled food, right? Why would you read a book that is written by a lier? If it was a fiction book, but it is claimed as a true story experienced by the author.
For the beginning the small archive note- Slavomir Rawitz, though he was a prisoner of war, was pardoned and freed in 1942. He joined the Polish devision of a Red Army. He was never in the camp, he was never in Siberia.
Now, why the story is fake? I know Siberia, I know reality, I know desert climate.
1). He says in the book that they were transported in sheep trucks from Moscow to Siberia, where they were put so tight, they were standing without even moving their hands. The journey was for over three weeks. It is physically impossible for a human being to stand for three weeks, their legs would be puffed to death threat. And then he describes how they walked to the camp in Siberian winter after this journey, hardly dressed. Impossible.
2). In the camp (oh, by the way camp 303 never existed in Siberia. Archive note- camp 303 was somewhere not far from Moscow), the author worked making skis. In one day they produced a pair of ready to use skis. Lie. Do you know how much time it is needed for timber to be ready for skis?
3). NO wife of a camp authority would help a prisoner to escape. Only those who DO NOT know the soviet reality can believe in this nonsense.
4) He describes how they made a hole in the ice of The Lena river (in April!) with a piece of log. Ice in Lena river in April is 6 feet deep! Dahhhh!
5). He describes how he fell under the water when ice broke. He got out, squeezed water off the heavy winter clothes, put wet winter clothes back and continued running. Impossible. Impossible to squeeze water out of a coat in winter- and a coat would be solid frozen like a tin. Impossible to run in wet clothes in Siberian winter.
6). He describes blooming Siberian orchards in May, blooming cherry and apricot trees. What a stupid lie for stupid believers. Cherry and apricot trees NEVER EVER can be found in Siberia, especially blooming in MAY. Spring comes in Siberia around June. Apricots grow in hot Middle Asia. Dahhhhhh.
7) Mongolian gave then peanuts. hahahahahaha. They didn't know what peanuts are at that time in Mongolia. There was no imported goodies yet at that time.
8). crossing desert Gobi in summer, without water. In two-three days they would be dehydrated to death. Burnt by the sun.
9) meeting Yeti- oh, well, probably the only truth in the book. LOL.
10) The author never saw again the people with whom he made this journey.... never reunited? Only because there were NO those people. As there WAS NO such a journey.
Bad fiction, for those who would believe any lie.
Never take anything for granted! Question everything!
P.S. If you want to read about soviet concentration camps reality- read a book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn "One day in life of Ivan Denisovich".
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