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The long walk [electronic resource] : the true story of a trek to freedom / Slavomir Rawicz.

Rawicz, Slavomir. (Author). Lee, John. (Added Author).

Summary:

Twenty-six-year-old 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 began 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 making their way on foot to British India, through four thousand miles of the most forbidding terrain on earth. They braved the Himalayas, the desolate Siberian tundra, icy rivers, and the great Gobi Desert, always a hair's breadth from death. Finally arriving, Rawicz reenlisted in the Polish army to fight the Germans.

Record details

ISBN: 1433283115 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
ISBN: 9781433283116 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 9:30:10.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by John Lee.
System Details Note:	Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 136583 KB; MP3 file size: 270086 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web.