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In a ghost-written book called The Long Walk, he claimed that in 1941 he and six others had escaped from a Siberian Gulag camp and begun a long journey south on foot (about 6,500 km or 4,000 mi), supposedly travelling through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas before finally reaching British India in the winter of 1942.
Slavomir Rawicz along with some other prisoners ventured out in the middle of the night to try to escape. Much thought was put into this attempted escape and Bargusin was one of the places they passed through.
30 kwi 2021 · Images. An illustration of a heart shape Donate. An illustration of text ellipses. More An illustration of ... The long walk Bookreader Item Preview ... The long walk by Rawicz, Slavomir. Publication date 1995 Topics Rawicz, ...
26 wrz 2011 · Originally published: London : Constable, 1956.
25 lip 2014 · Images. An illustration of a heart shape Donate. An illustration of text ellipses. More An illustration of ... The long walk : the true story of a trek to freedom by Rawicz, Slavomir. Publication date 2006 Topics Biography: ...
14 maj 2013 · Polish Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to a Siberian Gulag alongside thousands of others who had been caught up in the fighting.
The Long Walk, by Slavomir Rawicz, purports to be the true story of an heroic flight to freedom. He claims to have been a Polish officer grabbed by the Russians in 1939, imprisoned and marched to "camp 303" in Siberia. From there he and six companions escape, with the help of the commandants wife.
