The Long Walk - Slavomir Rawicz

This book is impossible to read just once, I've read it so many times now. I guarantee you will feel right there with Slav and his companions on thier journey, you will feel the cold, hunger, fear and desparation as though it was happening to you.......an outstanding personal account of grim determination.

Probably the best book I have ever read.Read it first at school when I was 12 with the English Lit.Class.and have read it time and time again. If there was ever a book that deserved a film script this is the one, try putting names to the characters.More to the point,the story is true and factual. Once you pick it up you`ll find it hard to put down. A moving factual ...  Read the complete review

Imagine that you are standing upright in the bottom of a very, very tall chimney. Far up at the top is a small slot allowing in a small sliver of daylight. You are pinned up against the sides of the chimney because it is not big enough to move around in. In front of you, a foot up from the floor is a door. The door is closed. You are cold, very hungry and thirsty. And you have been there for the best part of 24 hours. Every day for weeks. Months even. Every day for an hour or so the door opens and a Russian soldier pulls you out. You are taken into an office where you stand in front of a small group of stone-faced officials. They bark questions at you, ...  Read the complete review

I first read this book 40 years ago. Since then I have worn out 2 copies and have recommended it to anyone who would listen. Without exception they all agree that it is one of the greatest pieces of literature about human endurance that has ever been written. It is the story of a Polish cavalry officer, Slavomir Rawicz and the events that he endured between 1939 and 1941. The inhumanities endured by millions under Stalin, are now well known and accepted. This is a first hand account of Rawicz’s wrongful arrest under the Russians and his subsequent torture in the infamous Lubyanka prison. That he refused to bow to the pressure put on him gives us ...  Read the complete review