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Early life and army career. 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 · The story was The Long Walk, a gripping account of a Polish officer's imprisonment in the Soviet gulag in 1940, his escape and then a trek of 4,000 miles (6,437km) from Siberia to India, surviving ...
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 9, 2005 · The Long Walk: Did it really happen? Adventurer re-traces Slavomir Rawicz’s year-long 8,000-mile trek to freedom Slavomir Rawicz . By AMANDA BOROZINSKI; Dec 9, 2005 Dec 9, 2005 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Slavomir Rawicz (1915 – 2004) was a Polish lieutenant during the Second World War whose book, The Long Walk (1956), ghost-written by Ronald Downing based on extensive conversations with Rawicz, told the story of a remarkable journey. 25 year-old Rawicz and six companions – a Latvian, three Polish soldiers, a Lithuanian architect, and an American engineer – had escaped from a Soviet ...
