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02755aam a2200529Li 4500 001 F68462588BE511E8B24E8D0097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180720010525 008 101110s20161956nyub 000 0aeng 020 $a 9781433283116 020 $a 1433283115 020 $a 9780762784714 (electronic bk.) 020 $a 0762784717 (electronic bk.) 020 $a 9781599219752 (Paper) 020 $a 1599219751 (Paper) 020 $a 9780762761296 (Cloth) 020 $a 0762761296 (Cloth) 020 $a 9781417773619 (Cloth) 020 $a 1417773618 (Cloth) 020 $a 9781845296445 (Paper) 020 $a 1845296443 (Paper) 020 $a 9781592289448 (Paper) 020 $a 1592289444 (Paper) 020 $a 149302261X 020 $a 9781493022618 035 $a (OCoLC)946534656 040 $a Nz $b eng $c NTAUP $d OCLCO $d CDX $d IO4 $d SILO 043 $a e-pl--- $a e-pl--- 050 4 $a D805.S65 $b R39 2010 082 04 $a 940.54/7247/0957 $2 22 100 1 $a Rawicz, Slavomir, $e author. 245 14 $a The long walk : $b the true story of a trek to freedom / $c Slavomir Rawicz. 264 1 $a Guilford, CT : $b Lyons Press, $c [2016]. 300 $a x, 277 pages : $b map ; $c 24 cm 505 0 $a Foreword by Ronald Downing -- Introduction to the Polish edition -- Kharkov and Lubyanka -- Trial and sentence -- From prison to cattle truck -- Three thousand miles by train -- Chain gang -- End of the journey -- Life in Camp 303 -- The wife of the commissar -- Plans for escape -- Seven across the Lena River -- Baikal and a fugitive girl -- Kristina joins the party -- Across the Trans-Siberian Railway -- Eight enter Mongolia -- Life among the friendly Mongols -- The Gobi Desert : hunger, drought and death -- Snake meat and mud -- The last of the Gobi -- Six enter Tibet -- Five by-pass Lhasa -- Himalayan foothills -- Strange creatures -- Four reach India -- Afterword to the 1997 edition. 520 $a Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Prisoners and prisons, Russian. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $v Personal narratives, Polish. 650 0 $a Escapes $z Siberia. $z Siberia. 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z Poland $v Biography. 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z Siberia $z Siberia $v Biography. 653 $a Rawicz, Slavomir. 941 $a 2 952 $l KQPC446 $d 20181122010507.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720045243.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F68462588BE511E8B24E8D0097128E48 994 $a C0 $b IO4Initiate Another SILO Locator Search