The Long Walk

The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

By: Slavomir Rawicz

Narrated by: John Lee

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 4,000 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.

©2006 Slavomir Rawicz (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc.

Critic reviews

Nominee, 2008 Audie Award, Solo Narration - Male

"Positively Homeric." (London Times)

"One of the most amazing, heroic stories of this or any other time." (Chicago Tribune)

"It is a book filled with the spirit of human dignity and the courage of men seeking freedom." (Los Angeles Times)

Profound Journey

An epic story, expertly told and brilliantly narrated.

a must for citizens of 1st world nations

often we of blessed countries forget the reality of the evil in the world, and the naked compassion that knows no shame!

Powerful - Captured foreign soldiers subjected

to torture, terror, isolation by uncaring, autonomic Soviet prison guards commanded by puppets of the Stalinist Collective. How one proud and resilient Pole refuses to let the candle of freedom extinguish.

The Long Walk

Incredible true story. good narrator. I want to know more about those strange animals in the Himalayan mountains.

Amazing story

what an amazing story. I loved it right from the start. Gotta look for the movie now.