This year three Polish men retraced the journey. So, did Rawicz read official papers in London's Polish embassy recounting Gliński 's escape ? Is The Long Walk reborn as a truly epic, inspiring story, but with a name change? The story of this story goes on. He'd known about Rawicz's bestselling book, but had kept quiet, wanting to forget the war and move on. In May 2009, Witold Gliński came forward and claimed the story was really his own.

His famous trek was never made.īut then, another plot twist. Then, in 2006, the BBC released reports proving that Rawicz (who died in 2004) was released from the camp in 1942 and transferred to a refugee camp in Persia/Iran. So I was disappointed when allegations were raised that Rawicz's tale of escape was fabricated. (If you had chanced to talk to me at the time, I would have told you that you had to read this book. It's an amazing story, and when I first read it more than a decade ago I was thoroughly enthralled and inspired. A Polish prisoner of war escapes a WWII Soviet Gulag labor camp in 1941 and walks, with a few other escapees, 4,000 miles across the Siberian arctic, Gobi Desert, and Himalayan mountains to safety in British India. Starring Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, and Ed Harris.The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz is an epic story of human survival.

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. '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.' Guaranteed to forever stay in the reader''s mind, The Long Walk will remain a testament to the strength of the human spirit, and the universal desire for freedom and dignity. 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. In 1941, the author and six fellow prisoners of war escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk-a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, and untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. The classic adventure story that inspired the new major motion picture The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir

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