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  • Rawicz, Slavomir.
     
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  • Rawicz, Slavomir.
     
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  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Russian.
     
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  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Polish.
     
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  • Escapes -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
     
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  • Prisoners of war -- Poland -- Biography.
     
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  • Prisoners of war -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Biography.
     
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    The long walk : the true story of a trek to freedom / Slavomir Rawicz.
    by Rawicz, Slavomir.
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    Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2010.
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  • Rawicz, Slavomir.
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  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Russian.
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  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Polish.
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  • Escapes -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
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  • Prisoners of war -- Poland -- Biography.
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  • Prisoners of war -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Biography.
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    9781599219752
    1599219751
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    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.
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    "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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