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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.
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