Slavomir Rawicz
- Birth: September 1, 1015
- Death: April 5, 2004
- Nationality: Polish
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- Books Written
- The Long Walk
- Biography
a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the NKVD after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland. 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), supposedly travelling through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas before finally reaching British India in the winter of 1942. From Wikipedia
There is a lot of discussion about if Rawicz' story holds up with records.
Guardian Obituary
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