The long walk

By Slavomir Rawicz

Subjects: Biography, Russian Prisoners and prisons, Russia (federation), biography, Siberia (russia), biography, World War, 1939-1945, Polish Personal narratives, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, polish, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, russian, Prisoners of war, Escapes

Description: Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.