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Sławomir Rawicz was born on 1 September 1915 in Pinsk, the son of a landowner. He received private primary education and went on to study architecture in 1932. In 1937 he joined the Polish Army Reserve and underwent the cadet officer school. In July 1939 he married Vera, his first wife.
Dec 4, 2010 · By Hugh Levinson. BBC News. A few years ago, Australian director Peter Weir couldn't get something out of his mind. It was a story dating back more than 60 years. A simple story of a group of men ...
May 16, 2009 · It was every bit Witold’s story and became an international bestseller, but the man who claimed to have made the epic journey was Slavomir Rawicz, a former Polish officer.
Oct 30, 2006 · In 1956, a Polish man living in the English midlands published an extraordinary book that became one of the classic tales of escape and endurance. In The Long Walk, Slavomir Rawicz described how, during the Second World War, he and a group of prisoners broke out of a gulag in the Soviet Union in 1941. They walked thousands of miles south from ...
Slavomir Rawicz (Sławomir Rawicz) was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the Soviets after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland.In a ghost-written book called The Long Walk, he claimed that in 1941 he and six others had escaped from a Siberian Gulag camp and walked over 6,500 km (4,000 mi) south, through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas to finally reach British India in ...
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Witold Glinski was born in Poland on November 22 1926. His father owned a bus and taxi business, and Witold went to school locally before he and his family were arrested by the invading Russians ...
The Long Walk Slavomir Rawicz Wesley Adamczyk The Long Walk Slavomir Rawicz,2010-06-29 '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 Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer.
