The long walk: the true story of a trek to freedom

by Slavomir Rawicz

$35 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

New York: Lyons Press, 1997 . 8vo, pp. xii, 3-242; double-page map; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Sławomir Rawicz 1915-2004 was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the NKVD 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 begun a long journey south on foot about 6,500 km or 4,000 mi , supposedly travelling

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