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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Slavomir RawiczPublish date:2016-04-01Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Lyons PressISBN-13:9781493022618ISBN-10:149302261XUPC:9781493022618Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Wars & Conflicts, Personal MemoirsBook Topic:World War IISize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCGYW07TS5
"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 author 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 everyday 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 statement about man's desire to be free.

While the original book sold hundreds of thousands of copies, this updated paperback version includes a new Afterword by the author, as well as the author'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 forever stay in the reader's mind.***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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Lyons PressISBN-13:9781493022618ISBN-10:149302261XUPC:9781493022618Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Wars & Conflicts, Personal MemoirsBook Topic:World War IISize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCGYW07TS5
Slavomir Rawicz lived in England after the war, settling near Nottingham and working as a handicrafts and woodworking instructor, a cabinetmaker, and later as a technician in architectural ceramics at a school of art and design. He married an Englishwoman, with whom he had five children. He retired in 1975 after a heart attack, and lived a quiet life in the countryside until his death in 2004.
Publisher: Lyons Press

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