The long walk : the true story of a trek to freedom /
by Slavomir Rawicz.
- New York : Lyons Press, c1997.
- x, 245 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Originally published: London : Constable, 1956.
Kharkov and Lubyanka -- Trial and sentence -- From prison to cattle truck -- Three thousand miles by train -- Chain gang -- End of the journey -- Life in Camp 303 -- The wife of the commissar -- Plans for escape -- Seven across the Lena River -- Baikal and a fugitive girl -- Kristina joins the party -- Across the Trans-Siberian Railway -- Eight enter Mongolia -- Life among the friendly Mongols -- The Gobi Desert : hunger, drought and death -- Snake meat and mud -- The last of the Gobi -- Six enter Tibet -- Five by-pass Lhasa -- Himalayan foothills -- Strange creatures -- Four reach India.
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.
World War--Prisoners and prisons, Russian.--1939-1945 World War--1939-1945 Escapes--Russia (Federation)--Siberia. Prisoners of war--Russia (Federation)--Siberia