"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. 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.
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. Written in a hauntingly detailed, no holds barred way, the new edition of
is destined to outrank its classic status and guaranteed to forever stay in the reader's mind.
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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
. Starring Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, and Ed Harris, it is due for release in 2011.