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He married an Englishwoman and lived in the countryside until his death in 2004. Slavomir Rawicz lived in England for many years after the war. His story of his escaping to India is chronicled in a ghost-written book The Long Walk. Sea to a refugee camp in Iran and that his escape to India never occurred. The Soviet Union in 1942, was afterward transported across the Caspian That Rawicz was pardoned as a part of a general release of Poles from In 2006, the BBC released a report based on records from theįormer Soviet Union including some written by Rawicz himself that show Gobi desert, and over the Himalayas in winter to India In a book he participated in writing, he claimed that he and six othersĮscaped and walked over 6500 km (4000 miles) south, through the Słavomir Rawicz (1915 � 2004) was a Polish soldier who was arrested by Soviet occupation troops after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland. * Smyth-sewn Pages for Strength and Durability * Long-lasting, High Quality Acid-neutral Paper

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Includes all the classic Easton Press qualities: Includes original collector notes and unattached bookplate for your own personalization. New, still sealed in the original shrink-wrap. The Long Walk recounts that adventure, which is surely one of the most curious treks in history. Yakutsk and made their way, on foot, thousands of miles south toīritish India, where Rawicz reenlisted in the Polish army and fought A year later, heĪnd six comrades from various countries escaped from a labor camp in Unfortunates who had been caught up in the fighting. Siberian Gulag along with other captive Poles, Finns, Ukranians,Ĭzechs, Greeks, and even a few English, French, and American

"The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget."Ĭavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939ĭuring the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to the Personally hand signed by Słavomir Rawicz on a special page.Ī luxurious leather bound collectible for your library that would also make a great gift for someone special.

Not speak for themselves."-Slavomir Rawicz Live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could "I hope The Long Walk (The True Story of a Trek to Freedom) will remain as a memorial to all those who