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ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
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 RawiczIn 1941 the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutska camp where enduring hunger cold untended wounds untreated illnesses and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. Their marchover thousands of miles by footout of Siberia through China the Gobi Desert Tibet and over the Himalayas to British India is a remarkable statement about mans desire to be free. While the original book sold hundreds of thousands of copies this updated paperback version includes a new Afterword by the author as well as the authors Foreword to the Polish book. Written in a hauntingly detailed no holds barred way the new edition of The Long Walk is destined to outrank its classic status and guaranteed to forever stay in the readers mind.***Sixtime Academy Awardnominee Peter Weir (Master and Commander The Truman Show and The Dead Poets Society) recently directed The Way Back a muchanticipated film based on The Long Walk. Starring Colin Farrell Jim Sturgess and Ed Harris it is due for release in 2011.show more