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The Long Walk
- Author
- Slavomir Rawicz
- Narrator
- John Lee
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 January 2006
- Run Time
- 9 hours 35 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Second World War
What to expect
The film The Way Back, starring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris, is based on this amazing true story.
Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siberian Gulag. In the spring of 1941, he escaped with six of his fellow prisoners, including one American. Thus began their astonishing trek to freedom.
With no map or compass but only an ax head, a homemade knife, and a week’s supply of food, the compatriots spent a year making their way on foot to British India, through four thousand miles of the most forbidding terrain on earth. They braved the Himalayas, the desolate Siberian tundra, icy rivers, and the great Gobi Desert, always a hair’s breadth from death. Finally returning home, Rawicz reenlisted in the Polish army to fight the Germans.
This is his story.
Critics Review
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“John Lee narrates this astonishing adventure as if every word were a step on the long trek…This timeless tale is given new life in Lee’s fresh narration. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
AudioFile
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“A poet with steel in his soul.”
New York Times
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“It is a book filled with the spirit of human dignity and the courage of men seeking freedom.”
Los Angeles Times
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“One of the most amazing, heroic stories of this or any other time.”
Chicago Tribune
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“Positively Homeric.”
Times (London)
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“You’ll never complain about blisters again!”
BackPacker
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“One of the epic treks of the human race…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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“The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget.”
Stephen Ambrose, New York Times bestselling author
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Details
- Author
- Slavomir Rawicz
- Narrator
- John Lee
- Duration
- 9 hours 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 January 2006
- ISBN
- 9781481582346
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Second World War
Synopsis
The film The Way Back, starring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris, is based on this amazing true story.Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siberian Gulag. In the spring of 1941, he escaped with six of his fellow prisoners, including one American. Thus began their astonishing trek to freedom.With no map or compass but only an ax head, a homemade knife, and a week’s supply of food, the compatriots spent a year making their way on foot to British India, through four thousand miles of the most forbidding terrain on earth. They braved the Himalayas, the desolate Siberian tundra, icy rivers, and the great Gobi Desert, always a hair’s breadth from death. Finally returning home, Rawicz reenlisted in the Polish army to fight the Germans.This is his story.
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