They travelled through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas to finally reach British India in the winter of 1942. 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).
Whatever the truth, the book is a great read and a scarce book.Sławomir Rawicz (1 September 1915 – 5 April 2004) was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the NKVD after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland. In 2006 the BBC released a report based on former Soviet records, including statements written by Rawicz himself, showing that Rawicz had been released as part of the 1942 general amnesty of Poles in the USSR and subsequently transported across the Caspian Sea to a refugee camp in Iran and that his escape to India never occurred. However, doubt has recently been cast on the truth of Rawicz's story. One of the world's greatest stories of adventure, survival and escape, has been the inspiration for the film The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir and starring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris. In June 1941 they crossed the trans Siberian railway and headed south, climbing into Tibet and freedom nine months later in March 1942 after travelling on foot through some of the harshest regions in the world, including the Gobi Desert. After a three month journey to Siberia in the depths of winter he escaped with six companions, realising that to stay in the camp meant almost certain death. On 19th November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to 25 years in the Gulags. Slavomir Rawicz (1915-2004), was a young Polish cavalry officer. Not price clipped (15s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. Some edge wear, chipping and short closed tears to top and bottom of jacket, 1" loss to top of spine, corners rubbed with small loss, 1" loss to top back corner, but overall jacket quite bright and unsunned. Jacket by Antony Lake, back jacket illustration by John Rose (illustrator).
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