![]() ![]() In June 1941, they crossed the trans-Siberian railway and headed south, climbing into Tibet and freedom in British India nine months later, in March 1942, having travelled over four thousand miles on foot through some of the harshest regions in the world, including the Gobi Desert, Tibet and the Himalayas.įirst published in 1956, this is one of the greatest true stories of escape, adventure and survival against all odds. Realising that to remain meant almost certain death, Rawicz, along with six companions, escaped. On 19 November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to twenty-five years in a gulag.Īfter a three-month journey in the dead of winter to Siberia, life in a Soviet labour camp meant enduring hunger, extreme cold, untreated wounds and illnesses and facing the daily risk of arbitrary execution. Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. ![]() ![]() ‘I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves’ ![]()
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