Long Walk : The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (Hardcover)

from bespen

A classic adventure story, a tale of endurance and survival, The Long Walk is the story of a Polish officer who escaped from a Siberian Gulag and walked to India. Whilst doing research for this review, I discovered that another man claimed that Rawicz had stolen his story. Witold Glinski says tha...

from ngunapal

A sensational book that the reader would not want to put down until the end. One of the best true stories of human endurance I have read. The most fascinating is the description of the changing climate, weather and nature encountered as the author traveled from north to south through the vast Asi...

from bespen

A classic adventure story, a tale of endurance and survival, The Long Walk is the story of a Polish officer who escaped from a Siberian Gulag and walked to India. Whilst doing research for this review, I discovered that another man claimed that Rawicz had stolen his story. Witold Glinski says tha...

from SeriousGrace

The Long Walk came about because of a journalist for the London Daily Mail was writing a story on the Abominable Snowman. Ronald Downing was told Slavomir Rawicz had seen the creature. So what started as a story about a yeti gave birth to Rawicz telling his own seemingly incredible tale. Ronald D...

from HarryMacDonald

Many, many years ago a history-teacher in my then high-school was fond of the phrase "machine-gun history" by which he meant the popularized histories, often couched in supposed firsthand accounts, of the battles of World War Two, the kind of stuff which appeared in paperback by the thousand and ...