His account is so filled with despair and suffering it is almost unreadable. He and his companions crossed an entire continent-the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and then the Himalayas-with nothing but an ax, a knife, and a week's worth of food. None of them, however, has achieved the extraordinary feat Rawicz has recorded. History is filled with people who have crossed immense distances and survived despite horrific odds.

must be read-and reread, and passed along to friends.'-National Geographic Adventure 'The ultimate human endurance story.told with clarity, vivid description, and a good dash of romance and humor.'-The Vancouver Sun 'The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget.'-Stephen Ambrose'One of the epic treks of the human race.

'A poet with steel in his soul.'-New York Times 'One of the most amazing, heroic stories of this or any other time.'-Chicago Tribune 'A book filled with the spirit of human dignity and the courage of men seeking freedom.'-Los Angeles Times 'Heroism is not the domain of the powerful it is the domain of people whose only other alternative is to give up and die. Starring Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, and Ed Harris, it is due for release in 2011. *** Six-time Academy Award-nominee Peter Weir (Master and Commander, The Truman Show, and The Dead Poets Society) recently directed The Way Back, a much-anticipated film based on The Long Walk. Written in a hauntingly detailed, no holds barred way, the new edition of The Long Walk is destined to outrank its classic status and guaranteed to forever stay in the reader's mind. While the original book sold hundreds of thousands of copies, this updated paperback version includes a new Afterword by the author, as well as the author's Foreword to the Polish book. Their march-over thousands of miles by foot-out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India is a remarkable statement about man's desire to be free.

'I hope The Long Walk 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.'-Slavomir Rawicz In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk-a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats.

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