The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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Twenty-six-year-ancient 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 started 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 building their way on foot to British India, through four thousand miles of the most forbidding terrain on planet. They braved the Himalayas, the forbidding Siberian tundra, icy rivers, and the fantastic Gobi Desert, permanently a hair’s breadth from death. Finally arriving, Rawicz reenlisted in the Polish army to fight the Germans.Amazon.com Review
Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to the Siberian Gulag along with additional captive Poles, Finns, Ukranians, Czechs, Greeks, and even a few English, French, and American unfortunates who had been caught up in the fighting. A year later, he and six comrades from various countries escaped from a labor camp in Yakutsk and made their way, on foot, thousands of miles south to British India, where Rawicz reenlisted in the Polish army and fought against the Germans. The Long Walk recounts that adventure, which is surely one of the most curious treks in history.
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Not a terrible read, although the plot becomes bogged down with the sheer boredom of this journey.
Page after page of searching for food and walking. It is hard to belive that these men managed their way throught this nearly inconceiveable journey on the goodness of the Mongolinan and Tibetan people.
This novel does not impart upon the reader adequately thru written prose, the actual hardships that would have been commensurate of this type of journey. Nor does it impart any survial techniques required to keep people alive on a several thousand mile journey.
In closing, I find it basically uninspiring and hard to belive. Wouldn’t even make a excellent fiction novel. SAVE YOUR MONEY!
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This is a fantastic tale of human endurance in the face of
the greatest evil in human history: communism. Mr. Rawicz
was a victim of communism but rather than give into it as many
would or just die, he fought back and proved the power of
human freedom over communism.
Many will doubt. Some because it seems impossible for a man
to have done what he did. Others because reasonably frankly they
like communism or sympathize with it. Mr. Rawciz was for years
a victim of communist propoganda campaigns. Liberals will
despise it because it goes against their core philosophy in that
it shows that an individual doesn’t need a government do fantastic
things.
Any real supporter of freedom will like this book and know
in their gut that it is pure truth from take in to take in.
The fact that a movie has not been made out of this tale
proves how deep the control of liberals goes in the
entertainment industry.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I read this book the second time. Reading it the first time I thought that it maybe possible that this was a real tale and this seemingly impossible feat could have been accomplished as written. After some reading regarding the areas /mongolia,tibet, sibera etc mentioend in the book during the timespan of the adventure, it seems to me impossible that anyone could have accomplished this task as laid out in the book. In addition, why did the leader made no attempt to try and find any of the additional members especially the american engineer. This kind of adventure would have been something that certainly would have left some records somewhere/ Army=OSI=ect./ As an engineer, Mr Smith must have been aware of the fantastic potential a tale like this would have had in the papers and book deal especially when this tale would become know upon his return to the west There are just to many questions that a reasonable person must questioned when reading a tale like this. As an adventure NOVEL I would have liked this book.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
TOTAL HOGWASH, A FAIRY TALE IF I’VE EVER READ ONE. IT SHOULD HAVE STARTED OUT ‘ONCE UPON A TIME.’ I DO NOT MIND READING A GOOD YARN BUT THIS ONE TRIES TO SELL ITSELF AS A TRUE ACCOUNT. READERS ARE NOT THAT GULLIBLE. I RATE IT FOUR STARS FOR THE STORY BUT TAKE AWAY THREE FOR SAYING IT’S A TRUE STORY.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
What kind of fool does he take us for? He did not clarify how the party traveled through thousands of miles lacking being challenged by the police? Through thousands of miles lacking being on trails? lacking food? lacking water or means to carry water? I’m only half way through the book and it is insulting to me that he calls this tale “right.” I can’t wait to get to the “yedi” account and climbing over the Himalayas with a few more peanuts as nurishment. What a joke!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5