Long Walk

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In 1941, author Slavomir Rawicz and six fellow prisoners escaped a brutal Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk. Enduring hunger, cold, and daily threats, they embarked on an unbelievable thousands-of-miles march by foot across Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India. This harrowing true story of survival, a testament to human resilience and the universal desire for freedom, is recounted in Rawicz's *The Long Walk*. With over half a million copies sold, this classic adventure inspired Peter Weir’s major motion picture *The Way Back*, starring Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, and Ed Harris.