The Long Walk

The Long Walk

by Slavomir Rawicz

In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners embarked on "the long walk" after escaping a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk—a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. Their march—covering thousands of miles by foot—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.

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