6/2/2023 0 Comments Long walk by slavomir rawicz![]() ![]() He was released. Rawicz, however, claimed that after arriving in India the British sent him to Iraq to fight with a Polish army contingent. According to Soviet records, Rawicz was released during a general amnesty in 1942 and transported to Iran. He didnt escape. I just now ran across a 2006 BBC documentary (listen to a recently updated version of this report here) that essentially debunks Rawicz’ Homerian journey. Love, power, courage, hope, despair, victory. It is a simple, powerful tale that grabbed me by the gut and served as a personal inspiration to me. I read this book first in 1982 when I was 12 years old. Smith) trudged over six-thousand miles south from Siberia, passing through Mongolia and Tibet, crossing the Himalayas to finally arrive in the safety of British India. Supposedly, Rawicz’ and a few fellow escapees(including the mysterious American Mr. “The Long Walk” (published in 1956) describeds Rawicz’ epic escape from a Soviet gulag in 1941. ![]() I guess I’m a little slow to these things sometimes but I just…literally just…found out that Slavomir Rawicz’s The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom was probably fabricated out of whole cloth. ![]()
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