Slavomir Rawicz

La historia de Slavomir Rawicz es una de las aventuras reales más apasionantes de todos los tiempos; una gesta llena de heroísmo y lucha por la supervivencia. Su huida a pie a lo largo de más de 6.000 kilometros es un ejemplo del valor y la fuerza del espiritu humano.En el año 1939, Rawicz, un joven oficial de caballeria polaco, fue arrestado por los rusos y enviado, despues de brutales interrogatorios, al inhospito campo de concentracion 303, en el corazon de Siberia. Consciente de que permanecer alli hubiera significado una muerte segura, organizo su escapada junto a otros seis compañeros.Asi, en la primavera de 1941, con unas pocas provisiones robadas, y con una rudimentaria ropa de abrigo, dirigieron sus pasos hacia el sur a lo largo de las nevadas extensiones siberianas... Tras cruzar la via del Transiberiano, se adentraron en Mongolia, llegaron al terrible desierto del Gobi y atravesaron las montañas del Tibet. Nueve meses mas tarde, consiguieron alcanzar la libertad al llegar a la India en marzo de 1942, despues de haber cruzado a pie las regiones mas salvajes del mundo en su largo camino hacia la libertad.

Libro que inspiró la película "Camino a la libertad"

The ultimate story of human endurance over 4 000 miles on foot escaping from a Soviet gulag in Siberia across the Gobi Desert in China over the Himalayas and through Tibet into India

I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselvesSlavomir RawiczSlavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19 November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to twenty-five years in a gulag.After a three-month journey in the dead of winter to Siberia, life in a Soviet labour camp meant enduring hunger, extreme cold, untreated wounds and illnesses and facing the daily risk of arbitrary execution. Realising that to remain meant almost certain death, Rawicz, along with six companions, escaped. In June 1941, they crossed the trans-Siberian railway and headed south, climbing into Tibet and freedom in British India nine months later, in March 1942, having travelled over four thousand miles on foot through some of the harshest regions in the world, including the Gobi Desert, Tibet and the Himalayas.First published in 1956, this is one of the greatest true stories of escape, adventure and survival against all odds. In 2010, a film, The Way Back, based on the book, directed by six-time Academy Award-nominee Peter Weir (Master and Commander, The Truman Show, and The Dead Poets Society) was released. It starred Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess and Ed Harris.

MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD!The classic adventure story that inspired the new major motion picture The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir***I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves.Slavomir Rawicz"The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget..."--Stephen Ambrose "A poet with steel in his soul."--New York Times"One of the most amazing, heroic stories of this or any other time."--Chicago TribuneA book filled with the spirit of human dignity and the courage of men seeking freedom.Los Angeles TimesHeroism is not the domain of the powerful; it is the domain of people whose only other alternative is to give up and die. [The Long Walk] must be readand reread, and passed along to friends.National Geographic AdventureThe ultimate human endurance storytold with clarity, vivid description, and a good dash of romance and humor.The Vancouver Sun"Essentially it comes down to some sort of inner tenacity and that is what is so gripping about the book because you know that this is actually about all of us. Its not just some Polish bloke who wanted to get home. Its about how we all struggle on every day. Somehow or other we find a reason to keep on going and its the same here but on an epic scale".--Benedict Allen, explorer and bestselling author of Into the Abyss and Edge of Blue Heaven***In 1941, the author and six fellow prisoners of war escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutska camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, and untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. Their marchover thousands of miles by footout of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India is a remarkable statement about mans desire to be free.Written in a hauntingly detailed, no-holds-barred way, the book inspired the Peter Wier film The Way Back, due for release in late 2010. Previous editions have sold hundreds of thousands of copies; this edition includes an afterword written by the author shortly before his death, as well as the authors introduction to the books Polish edition.Guaranteed to forever stay in the readers mind, The Long Walk will remain a testament to the strength of the human spirit, and the universal desire for freedom and dignity.***Six-time Academy Awardnominee Peter Weir (Master and Commander, The Truman Show, and The Dead Poets Society) recently directed The Way Back, a much-anticipated film based on The Long Walk. Starring Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, and Ed Harris, it is due for release in late 2010.

El 19 de novembre de 1939, Slavomir Rawicz, un jove oficial de cavalleria polonès fou detingut pels russos, acusat d'espionatge. Després de patir tortures i de sotmetre'l a judici, fou condemnat a 25

El 19 de novembre de 1939, Slavomir Rawicz, un jove oficial de cavalleria polonés, fou detingut pels russos i condemnat a 25 anys de treballs forçats en un camp de presoners de Sibéria. Al cap d uns mesos, s escapa i emprengue, amb sis companys mes, una fugida cap a la llibertat. Travessant Siberia, Mongolia, el desert del Gobi, la Xina, el Tibet i l Himalaia, sense cap altre ajut que les seves cames, arribaren a l India el març de 1942, despres d haver recorregut mes de set mil quilometres i de nou mesos de caminar. Aquesta es la narracio d aquell viatge, una historia epica de fugida i supervivencia, i d una determinacio: la llibertat i la dignitat.