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The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
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The Long Walk

The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

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Narrator John Lee

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Length 9 hours 35 minutes
Language English
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The film The Way Back, starring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris, is based on this amazing true story.

Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siberian Gulag. In the spring of 1941, he escaped with six of his fellow prisoners, including one American. Thus began their astonishing trek to freedom.

With no map or compass but only an ax head, a homemade knife, and a weekโ€™s supply of food, the compatriots spent a year making their way on foot to British India, through four thousand miles of the most forbidding terrain on earth. They braved the Himalayas, the desolate Siberian tundra, icy rivers, and the great Gobi Desert, always a hairโ€™s breadth from death. Finally returning home, Rawicz reenlisted in the Polish army to fight the Germans.

This is his story.

Slavomir Rawicz (1915โ€“2004)ย lived in England for many years after the war. He married an Englishwoman and lived in the countryside until his death in 2004.

JOHN LEE's highly innovative work in the fields of emotional intelligence, anger management, and emotional regression has made him an in-demand consultant, teacher, trainer, coach, and speaker. His contributions in the fields of recovery, relationships, menโ€™s issues, spirituality, parenting, and creativity have put him in the national spotlight for over 20 years. Lee has been featured on Oprah, 20/20, Barbara Waltersโ€™ The View, CNN, PBS, and NPR. He has been interviewed byย Newsweek, theย New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and dozens of other national magazines and radio talk shows.For over 25 years, Lee has conducted private and group sessions on a variety of issues working with men, women, couples, and families. He lectures, gives workshops and trainings in cities all over the world, delivering sensitive, yet sophisticated material to audiences in a humorous and simple way everyone can understand. His lectures have been branded as โ€œhilariously entertaining, deeply compassionate, yet filled with โ€˜tell it like it is!โ€™โ€Lee served as a professor at the University of Texas and at the University of Alabama before becoming a writer, bestselling author, life coach, and personal consultant. He currently resides on breathtaking Lookout Mountain in Mentone, Alabama with his three happy dogs.

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Reviews

โ€œJohn Lee narrates this astonishing adventure as if every word were a step on the long trekโ€ฆThis timeless tale is given new life in Leeโ€™s fresh narration. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.โ€

The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget.”

“A poet with steel in his soul.”

“It is a book filled with the spirit of human dignity and the courage of men seeking freedom.”

“One of the most amazing, heroic stories of this or any other time.”

“Positively Homeric.”

“You’ll never complain about blisters again!”

“One of the epic treks of the human race…His account is so filled with despair and suffering it is almost unreadable. But it must be read—and re-read.”

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