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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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Characters/People edit
- Slavomir Rawicz: The author and ringleader. A young Polish cavelry officer siezed by the Russians in 1939, tortured, convicted in a sham trial and sentenced to 25 years in a gulag.
- Zaro: prisoner in Soviet labor camp
- Kristina: fugitive girl from Poland
- Kolemenos: "giant" of a man, in Soviet prison
- Mister Smith: man in Soviet prison
- Makowski: Polish man in Soviet prison
- Paluchowicz: toothless man in Soviet prison
- Marchinkovas: man in Soviet prison
- Grechinen: Add a description of this character.
- Mischa
- Ushakov: Commander of the Soviet labor camp
- Lena: a river the travelers must cross
- Pinsk
- Anastazi: see Kolemenos
- Lake Baikal: large lake in Siberia
Quotes edit
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“. . . my words have been a help in their own uncertainties, pain, misadventures, and lack of confidence.”
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“There are many other similar stories. I am not the only one.”
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“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.”
First Sentence edit
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
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
- Slavomir Rawicz (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Constable and the Book Society
Country: England
Publication Date: 1956
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 240
Publisher: Constable and the Book Society
Country: England
Publication Date: 1956
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 240
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 920.9'940547247
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