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The Long Walk (1956) (edit title/settings)

The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

by Slavomir Rawicz (Author), Slavomir Rawicz (Author) (edit contributors)

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"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."--Slavomir Rawicz In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk--a camp where... read more

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  • “. . . my words have been a help in their own uncertainties, pain, misadventures, and lack of confidence.”
  • “There are many other similar stories. I am not the only one.”
  • “The people make me feel very humble. They do a lot to wipe out bitter memories of other people who have lost their respect for humanity.”
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  • It is odd to reflect that the prime advocates of a classless society had this early succeeded in making two classes of workers and in marking the difference so clearly with substantial rewards to one class.
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  • One shining, incalculable asset remained-the tight, warm friendship of men together in misfortune. While we remained together hope could not be quenched. The whole, in terms of spirit and resolution, was greater than the sum of its parts.
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  • freedom is like oxygen, and I hope The Long Walk is a reminder that when lost, freedom is difficult to regain.
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  • There is a courage which flourishes in the worst kind of adversity and it is quite unspectacular. These men had it in full.
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  • Marchinkovas spoke for us all when he said, 'These people make me feel very humble. They do a lot to wipe out bitter memories of other people who have lost their respect for humanity.'
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  • The limit of endurance, I found, was long after a tortured body had cried in agony for relief.
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  • I felt suddenly bereft of friends, bereft of everything, as desolate and lonely as a man could be.
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  • This, then, was our destination-Camp Number 303, on the north side of the Lena River, which I estimate to have been between 200 and 300 miles southwest of the Northern Siberia capital, Yakutsk.
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  • Fear remained, a lurking thing, but movement and action and the exercise of the mind on the daily problems of existence pushed it into the background.
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  • It is a labored truism that all things and experiences are comparative. By all normal standards we were still abjectly dressed for a Siberian winter, but the additional warmth we felt from our fufaikas was extraordinary.
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First Sentence edit see section history

It was about nine o'clock one bleak November day that the key rattled in the heavy lock of my cell in the Lubyanka Prison and two broad-shouldered guards marched purposefully in.

Table of Contents edit see section history

1. Kharkov and the Lubyanka
2. Trial and Sentence
3. From Prison to Cattle Truck
4. Three Thousand Miles by Train
5. Chain Gang
6. End of the Journey
7. Life in Camp 303
8. The Wife of the Commissar
9. Plans for Escape
10. Seven Cross the Lena River
11. Baikal and a Fugitive Girl
12. Kristina Joins the Party
13. Across the Trans-Siberian Railway
14. Eight Enter Mongolia
15. Life Among the Friendly Mongols
16. The Gobi Desert: Hunger, Drought and Death
17. Snake Meat and Mud
18. The Last of the Gobi
19. Six Enter Tibet
20. Five By-Pass Lhasa
21. Himalayan Foot-Hills
22. Strange Creatures
23. Four Reach India

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Slavomir Rawicz (Author)
  2. Slavomir Rawicz (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Ronald Downing (Creator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Constable and the Book Society
Country: England
Publication Date: 1956
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 240

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Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

Some intense scenes of the war in Poland, in labor camp and during the journey.

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