The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom

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“I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves.”–Slavomir Rawicz

In 1941, the writer and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk–a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were on a regular basis feats. Their march–over thousands of miles by foot–out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India is a remarkable remark about man’s desire to be free.

While the original book sold hundreds of thousands of copies, this up to date paperback version includes a new Afterword by the writer, as well as the writer’s Foreword to the Polish book. Written in a hauntingly detailed, no holds barred way, the new edition of The Long Walk is destined to outrank its classic status and guaranteed to eternally stay in the reader’s mind.

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Six-time Academy Award–nominee Peter Weir (Master and Commander, The Truman Show, and The Dead Poets Society) recently directed The Way Back, a much-anticipated film based on The Long Walk. Starring Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, and Ed Harris, it is due for release in 2011.

Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 all the way through the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to the Siberian Gulag in conjunction with other captive Poles, Finns, Ukranians, Czechs, Greeks, and even a couple of English, French, and American unfortunates who had been caught up in the fighting. A year later, he and six comrades from more than a few 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 curious treks in history.

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