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Author Rawicz, Slavomir.

Title The long walk / by Slavomir Rawicz ; [with a new afterword by the author].

Publication Info. New York, NY : Lyons Press, [1997]
©1997
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1145061~S1
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Description xii, 242 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : map ; 23 cm
Note Reprint. Originally published: London : Constable, 1956.
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 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.
Subject 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.
Nazi concentration camp escapes -- Russia -- Siberia.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 1558216847 (pbk.)
1558216340
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