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Rawicz, Slavomir.
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Rawicz, Slavomir.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Russian.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Polish.
Escapes -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
Prisoners of war -- Poland -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Biography.
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The long walk : the ...
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The long walk : the true story of a trek to freedom / Slavomir Rawicz.
by
Rawicz, Slavomir.
Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2010.
Subjects
Rawicz, Slavomir.
World
War
, 1939-1945
--
Prisoners
and prisons, Russian.
World
War
, 1939-1945
--
Personal narratives, Polish.
Escapes
--
Russia
(
Federation
)
--
Siberia
.
Prisoners
of
war
--
Poland
--
Biography
.
Prisoners
of
war
--
Russia
(
Federation
)
--
Siberia
--
Biography
.
ISBN:
9781599219752
1599219751
Description:
x, 277 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Contents:
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 cross 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.
Summary:
"The author describes his escape with a small group of fellow
prisoners
from a Soviet labor camp in 1941 and their subsequent trek out of
Siberia
, through China, the Gobi Desert, and Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India."--BWI.
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Non-fiction
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