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Summary: Great Book
Review: I couldn't put it down. The very idea that this is a fabricated story, as one reviewer wrote, is astonishing. The obvious knowledge the writer has of geography and Russian history is evident. I have spent some time in Russia, and can appreciate the descriptions of the country. And, as he says at the end, there are many more stories of escape out there.
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Summary: We are fortunate to live in a free country.
Review: The Long Walk was a tremendous book of surviors and determination. I found the book most interesting. What the human body can indure and continue to function! What a clever comindant wife, and the fortunate few that lived because of her.
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Summary: The Long Walk
Review: Perhaps,the most touching story to come out of WW2.The style of writing that other reviewers complain about, is typical of the genre, ( personnel acounts of WW2 published in the UK in the 50s and 60s ). The lends the book more credibility than if it had been written with better pros.
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Summary: Exasperating...
Review: This is quite possibly the most maddening book I have ever read. If it is true, it is, as other's have stated, an amazing testament to the strength and endurance of man when faced with incredible hardships. If it is in part or in whole a fabrication, it is a very deft one. Another reviewer here concludes that it doesn't really matter if the story is true or untrue, as regardless it makes a great yarn. Well, I think it *is* important. The tale Slavomir relates is so moving, and evokes such empathy (as evidenced by the thousands of letters sent to him after it was published), that it would almost be a criminal offense if it turned out he was trading on the credulity of masses.If much or all of the book is invented, then it changes from being a monument to human will, to a monument to the complexity of mental illness. If Slavomir isn't telling the truth, I don't think his intent is cynical. Rather, it is the result of some sort of dementia. I don't doubt that he suffers from nightmares and other residue of some sort of traumatic experience. Perhaps his mind was broken by the torture inflicted by the Russian authorities, and he fantasized about escape. Perhaps he snapped in Siberia, and his dreams about escape became real to him. One can speculate endlessly, as there is no point in the book where I felt I could state incontrovertibly that it was untrue. I'm not trying to impugn Slavomir's integrity, it's just that incredible tales demand at least some ordinary proofs. I would love to see the veracity of this tale investigated. It should be possible to discover some corroborating evidence.
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Summary: Attention Armchair Adventurers! Fasten Your Seat Belts!
Review: Torture, imprisonment, then escape! From the Siberian wilderness, through the Mongolian desert, the Himalayas, and finally India, Slavomir and his associates prove that man's quest for freedom is the strongest drive of all. Pick it up and you won't be able to put it down. An absolute true story of courage, determination, and triumph.
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Summary: The Long Walk
Review: A friends mother read this to her kids (when I was about twelve), and I was lucky enough to hear a few chapters. Some years later I read it again, and now I'm thinking I'll get and read it yet again. What a great story! I noticed some reviews were cynical, some saying the story was farfetched and/or boring.I rate it easily in the top ten of all the books I've ever read! Truely amazing!
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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: The book really has two distinct sections to it, and both are good in their own way. The first part details the author's trip to a Siberian work camp. It is vivid in detail, and is an amazing account of the interactions with Russian captors and their techniques to try to "break" the spirit of their captives. The second part of the book recounts the escape by the author and a small group of men from the camp, and their journey to freedom. Although it isn't as vivid as the first part of the journey, it does give the reader a sense of the drudgery and hopelessness that they encountered on the trip, and also gave me a real feel for the varying emotions they went through. For those people who say that there could never be this much luck, or that humans couldn't accomplish what the author wrote about, I say that you never know what you can accomplish until you are placed in that situation.
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Summary: Amazing story of luck, a good plan, and endurance.
Review: This is an amazing escape story and shows the incredible perservance and endurance humans can draw upon in the most miserable of circumstances. Mr. Rawicz's story is amazing!
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Summary: Our best-selling book in fifteen years of book publishing!
Review: The Long Walk is a personal favorite of mine. It is an epic and inspiring true story of man's ability to overcome the most daunting hardships. Like We Die Alone by David Howarth, it is an unforgettable portrait of the determination of the human spirit. This edition has sold over 150,000 copies. And we have received literally thousands of letters from all around the world. Slavomir Rawicz is in his mid-eighties and lives in England.
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Summary: The Long Walk
Review: Not a bad read, although the plot becomes bogged down with the sheer boredom of this journey. Page after page of searching for food and walking. It is hard to belive that these men managed their way throught this almost inconceiveable journey on the goodness of the Mongolinan and Tibetan people. This novel does not impart upon the reader adequately thru written prose, the actual hardships that would have been commensurate of this type of journey. Nor does it impart any survial techniques required to keep people alive on a several thousand mile journey. In closing, I find it basically uninspiring and hard to belive. Wouldn't even make a good fiction novel. SAVE YOUR MONEY!
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