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An edition of The long walk (2010)

The long walk

the true story of a trek to freedom

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  • 3 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.

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Lyons Press
Language
English
Pages
277

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Subjects

Prisoners of war, Russian Prisoners and prisons, World War, 1939-1945, Escapes, Polish Personal narratives, Biography, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, russian, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, polish, Russia (federation), biography, Siberia (russia), biography

People

Slavomir Rawicz

Places

Russia (Federation), Poland, Siberia
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Cover of: The long walk
The long walk: the true story of a trek to freedom
2010, Lyons Press
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Ronald Downing
Introduction to the Polish edition
Kharkov and Lubyanka
Trial and sentence
From prison to cattle truck
Three thousand miles by train
Chain gang
End of the journey
Life in Camp 303
The wife of the commissar
Plans for escape
Seven across the Lena River
Baikal and a fugitive girl
Kristina joins the party
Across the Trans-Siberian Railway
Eight enter Mongolia
Life among the friendly Mongols
The Gobi Desert : hunger, drought and death
Snake meat and mud
The last of the Gobi
Six enter Tibet
Five by-pass Lhasa
Himalayan foothills
Strange creatures
Four reach India
Afterword to the 1997 edition.

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Guilford, CT

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.54/7247/0957
Library of Congress
D805.S65 R39 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 277 p. :
Number of pages
277

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26333521M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780762761296
ISBN 10
0762761296, 1599219751
ISBN 13
9780762761296, 9781599219752
OCLC/WorldCat
680350174

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