The Long Walk

“In 1941, the author and six fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk – a camp where surviving hunger, cold, untended wounds, and untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everday feats. Their trek over thousands of miles by foot – out of Siberia and through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British-India – was a remarkable journey through some of the most inhospitabe conditions on he face of the earth.
Written in a hauntingly detailed, no-holds-barred way, the book inspired the new Peter Weir film, The Way Back …”