03181cam a2200349 4500 590058774 TxAuBib 20220525120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781849016803 1849016801 B00MJD7AMC Amazon a162e638-e64d-48b4-90f7-b78df2502634 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 628230 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Rawicz, Slavomir. The Long Walk [Bridges eBook] : The True Story of a Trek to Freedom. Little, Brown Book Group, 2010. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 337kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>'I hope <i>The Long Walk</i> 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'<br /> Slavomir Rawicz<br /> Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19 November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to twenty-five years in a gulag.<br /> After a three-month journey in the dead of winter to Siberia, life in a Soviet labour camp meant enduring hunger, extreme cold, untreated wounds and illnesses and facing the daily risk of arbitrary execution. Realising that to remain meant almost certain death, Rawicz, along with six companions, escaped. In June 1941, they crossed the trans-Siberian railway and headed south, climbing into Tibet and freedom in British India nine months later, in March 1942, having travelled over four thousand miles on foot through some of the harshest regions in the world, including the Gobi Desert, Tibet and the Himalayas.<br /> First published in 1956, this is one of the greatest true stories of escape, adventure and survival against all odds.<br /> In 2010, a film, <i>The Way Back</i>, based on the book, directed by six-time Academy Award-nominee Peter Weir (<i>Master and Commander</i>, <i>The Truman Show</i>, and <i>The Dead Poets Society</i>) was released. It starred Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess and Ed Harris.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-21 20:00:02. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/A16/2E6/38/LongWalk9781849016803.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A162E638-E64D-48B4-90F7-B78DF2502634&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/A16/2E6/38/LongWalk9781849016803.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A162E638-E64D-48B4-90F7-B78DF2502634&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/A16/2E6/38/LongWalk9781849016803.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A162E638-E64D-48B4-90F7-B78DF2502634&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)