The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

by Slavomir Rawicz Narrated by John Lee

Overview

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.

Editorial Reviews

The New York Times

A poet with steel in his soul.

Chicago Tribune

One of the most amazing, heroic stories of this or any other time.

Los Angeles Times

It is a book filled with the spirit of human dignity and the courage of men seeking freedom.

From the Publisher

"The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget..."—Stephen Ambrose "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 "Heroism is not the domain of the powerful; it is the domain of people whose only other alternative is to give up and die…. [The Long Walk] must be read—and reread, and passed along to friends."—National Geographic Adventure "The ultimate human endurance story…told with clarity, vivid description, and a good dash of romance and humor."—The Vancouver Sun "Essentially it comes down to some sort of inner tenacity and that is what is so gripping about the book because you know that this is actually about all of us. It's not just some Polish bloke who wanted to get home. It's about how we all struggle on every day. Somehow or other we find a reason to keep on going and it's the same here but on an epic scale".—Benedict Allen, explorer and bestselling author of Into the Abyss and Edge of Blue Heaven

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169837421
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Edition description:	Unabridged

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