Slavomir Rawicz lived in England after the war, settling near Nottingham and working as a handicrafts and woodworking instructor, a cabinetmaker, and later as a technician in architectural ceramics at a school of art and design. He married an Englishwoman, with whom he had five children. He retired in 1975 after a heart attack, and lived a quiet life in the countryside until his death in 2004.
"A poet with steel in his soul."--New York Times
"One of the most amazing, heroic stories of this or any other
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“A book filled with the spirit of human dignity and the courage of
men seeking freedom.”
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“Heroism 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 read—and reread, and passed along to
friends.”—National Geographic Adventure
“The ultimate human endurance story…told with clarity, vivid
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"The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and
one that I will never forget..."--Stephen Ambrose
"One of the epic treks of the human race. Shackleton, Franklin,
Amundsen.... History is filled with people who have crossed immense
distances and survived despite horrific odds. None of them,
however, has achieved the extraordinary feat Rawicz has recorded.
He and his companions crossed an entire continent-the Siberian
arctic, the Gobi desert and then the Himalayas-with nothing but an
ax, a knife, and a week's worth of food.... His account is so
filled with despair and suffering it is almost unreadable. But it
must be read-and re-read." —Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect
Storm
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actually about all of us. It's not just some Polish bloke who
wanted to get home. It's about how we all struggle on every
day. Somehow or other we find a reason to keep on going and
it's the same here but on an epic scale".--Benedict Allen, explorer
and bestselling author of Into the Abyss and Edge of Blue
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