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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 · 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 ...
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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Dec 9, 2005 · In 1939, Slavomir Rawicz, a lieutenant in the Polish cavalry attached to infantry on the Russian front, was captured by the Russians and sent to one of Josef Stalin’s labor camps in Siberia ...
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Siberia Escape - The Long Walk "The Long Walk" is a popular term that is attached to one of the most famous prison escape attempts of the 20th century. After being imprisoned in the far north of Russian Siberian wasteland, Polish soldier Slawomir Rawicz and six of his friends managed to escape from the gulag and go on incredible journey in which they walked over 4000 miles southward until they ...
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 ...
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Linda Willis, Skyhorse, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-61608-158-4. Published in 1956, Slavomir Rawicz's The Long Walk told of a group of Siberian labor camp prisoners at the beginning of WWII and their ...
