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The Long Walk

The Long WalkAuthor: Slavomir Rawicz
Creator: John Lee
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Category: Book

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Edition: Unabridged
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Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.2 x 0.9

ISBN: 0786166835
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5472470957
EAN: 9780786166831
ASIN: 0786166835

Publication Date: November 2006
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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.

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MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD!
 
The classic adventure story that inspired the new major motion picture The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir
 
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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
 
“A poet with steel in his soul.”
—New York Times
 
“One of the most amazing, heroic stories of this or any other time.”
—Chicago Tribune
“A book filled with the spirit of human dignity and the courage of men seeking freedom.”
—Los Angeles Times
“The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget.”
—Stephen Ambrose, historian and presidential biographer
 
“One of the epic treks of the human race. Shackleton, Franklin, Amundsen. . . . History is filled with people who have crossed immense distances and survived despite horrific odds. None of them, however, has achieved the extraordinary feat Rawicz has recorded. He and his companions crossed an entire continent--the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and then the Himalayas--with nothing but an ax, a knife, and a week's worth of food. . . . His account is so filled with despair and suffering it is almost unreadable. But it must be read—and re-read.”
—Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm
 
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In 1941, the author and six fellow prisoners of war escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk—a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, and 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.
 
Written in a hauntingly detailed, no-holds-barred way, the book inspired the Peter Wier film The Way Back, due for release in late 2010. Previous editions have sold hundreds of thousands of copies; this edition includes an afterword written by the author shortly before his death, as well as the author's introduction to the book's Polish edition.
Guaranteed to forever stay in the reader's mind, The Long Walk will remain a testament to the strength of the human spirit, and the universal desire for freedom and dignity.
***
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 late 2010.






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5 out of 5 stars The Long Walk   August 26, 2010
D. Adams (Amarillo, TX)
This was a very good read. I enjoy non fiction adventure that doesn't require a great amount of concentration, so this one hit the spot- it is also a very compelling story. I look forward to seeing the movie soon!


5 out of 5 stars The Long Walk, by Slavomir Rawicz   August 22, 2010
R. McIntosh
A gripping book full of adventure dictated by Rawicz "to Ronald Downing with the help of [his] wife" (p.244), Rawicz details the escape from a Russian labor camp and covers territory ranging from the arid desert to the Himalayas.

One touching scene, which took place on a Christmas Eve during the "march" to the labor camp, is where the men on the march sung "Holy Night" together: "A marching choir of nearly five thousand male voices drowning their despair in a song of praise for the Child who would be born on the morrow" (p.49). As I'd put on my facebook page and a blog with regard to that scene, "Maybe among that 'choir' are men who now see 'the thrill of hope' for which the world lay 'in sin and error pining'...."

Perhaps learning of others' sufferings can help one feel a sense of not being alone in suffering and to learn that indeed there are others who fare worse. Perhaps it is this feeling that is the "help" that Rawicz mentions in the "Afterword": "For some reason, my words have been a help in their own uncertainties, pain, misadventures, and lack of confidence" (p.244).

It seems that a movie based on this book, "The Way Back", was or will be released this year. Rawicz passed away in 2004, but I think in his inner heart he would think it best of this movie doesn't draw attention solely to him and those he trekked with but to the miserable plight many faced during WWII. In the "Afterword" of his book, he states, "I did not write my story for personal gain. It was done as a memorial to all those whose name is Million, and who could not speak for themselves" (p.245). His final two sentences of this "Afterword" are: "There are many other similar stories. I am not the only one" (p.245).

You're right, Slav. You're not the only one who faced incredible hardship. But you are likely one of few whose arduous journey out of that hardship took them to such formidable terrain as it took you.

Thank you for sharing your story.



4 out of 5 stars The truth?   August 18, 2010
NYPD LT (NYC)
Well i read the book, i enjoyed it. I just am not sure about what i am now reading about the validity of it. Either way, read it and enjoy it.


4 out of 5 stars An amazing read   August 15, 2010
Jeffrey D. Chansler (nj usa)
I read this book knowing the controversy this book has caused. Many believe this has never happened. Many believe that that the author stole the story from a fellow soldier, many believe that the story is true but exaggerated and many believe that the book is 100 percent true. I believe the second one and third one. The author was a polish soldier at the outbreaks of world war two and was captured by the soviets and was sent to a soviet prison but in 1942 records show that Sawomir Rawicz was released from prison and that he was sent to Iran as part of Anders army, a polish army stationed in Soviet Russia, that was made up of captured Polish soldier, that was sent to the middle east and fought along the allies in italy and then relocated to England after the war. Soviet records differ from Sawomir Rawicz account of where he was imprisoned and what he was imprisoned for.

There is proof the story did take place. A Intelligence officer actually debriefed three men who claimed they escaped from a siberian prison and recently Witold Gliski has claimed that Sawomir Rawicz stole this story that happened to him.

I believe this could have possibly happened but not to Sawomir Rawicz. The story could be a little exaggerated but it is an amazing read. You will not put this book down. So forget if this is true or not or if the author is lying read the book and decide for your self.


5 out of 5 stars Great Story; Great Narration   August 7, 2010
Richard T. Keppelman (Hartford, CT USA)
An amazing story, well narrated by the reader. While parts of the story may seam a little stretched, I sensed that the basic elements are true. All consistent with what I have read about the gulags.

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