The Long Walk

<DIV>"I hope <B>The Long Walk</B> 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<BR /><BR />In 1941 the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk--a camp where enduring hunger cold untended wounds untreated illnesses and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. Their march--over thousands of miles by foot--out of Siberia through China the Gobi Desert Tibet and over the Himalayas to British India is a remarkable statement about man's desire to be free. <BR /><BR />While the original book sold hundreds of thousands of copies this updated paperback version includes a new Afterword by the author as well as the author's Foreword to the Polish book. Written in a hauntingly detailed no holds barred way the new edition of <B>The Long Walk</B> is destined to outrank its classic status and guaranteed to forever stay in the reader's mind.</DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV>***</DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV><DIV>Six-time Academy Award–nominee Peter Weir (<I>Master and Commander The Truman Show</I> and <I>The Dead Poets Society</I>) recently directed <I>The Way Back</I> a much-anticipated film based on <I>The Long Walk</I>. Starring Colin Farrell Jim Sturgess and Ed Harris it is due for release in 2011.</DIV><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /></DIV>