Slavomir rawicz biography sample

‘I traipsed 4,000 miles to escape a Gulag only to end up in friggin’ Sandiacre’ - Slawomir Rawicz

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Comic Release Date: April 2014

Slavomir Rawicz (1915 – 2004) was a Polish lieutenant during the Second World War whose book, The Long Walk (1956), ghost-written by Ronald Downing based on extensive conversations with Rawicz, told the story of a remarkable journey.

25 year-old Rawicz and six companions – a Latvian, three Polish soldiers, a Lithuanian architect, and an American engineer – had escaped from a Soviet labour camp in Siberia with a few provisions, then walked 4,000 miles across Siberia, Mongolia, the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas, intent on reaching British India.

The Long Walk tells the story of this 11-month journey, during which the escapees were joined by a 17 year old Polish girl, Kristina (whose death in the Gobi desert is devastatingly recounted) and – after the deaths of four of their party – arrived at the Indian borde