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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.
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 ...
Dec 4, 2010 · Right from the start, no-one could find information to prove or disprove whether the author, Slavomir Rawicz, was telling the truth, as he claimed. There were no documents, no evidence, and all ...
Jan 21, 2011 · The Way Back is based on The Long Walk, a bestselling 1950s memoir by Polish veteran Slavomir Rawicz that was thought to be the author's own story until, shortly after the fall of Polish communism ...
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,1956 Slavomir Rawicz was an officer in the Polish Cavalry during World War II. In 1941, he and six fellow prisoners escaped from a Siberian labour camp and walked across 4,000 miles of forbidding terrain to freedom. This is their astonishing story.
