I found this book in a basket of free books and read it straight through. Interesting to Read, Even If It Isn't True Fans of survival against all odds stories might like this one. The descriptions are very vivid and the author has a sort of old fashioned way of speaking that I enjoyed but that may take some getting used to. This was a fairly engaging story, but it parts of it seem very far fetched. Then they go through many hardships to walk out of Siberia, through Mongolia, and eventually all the way to India. Smith - and they start preparations and eventually make good on their plan. He finds some allies - which included a mysterious American named Mr. He is even encouraged and helped by the wife of the head of the prison. At the prison camp (where the prisoners had to build their own barracks) he starts to formulate a plan of escape. He was sent to Siberia, which in itself was a remarkable journey that at one point involved sleds pulled by reindeer. He was originally from Poland and the Russians captured him and accused him of spying. Slavomir relates how he was imprisoned in Russia just before the start of World War II.

I felt suddenly bereft of friends, bereft of everything, as desolate and lonely as a man could be. > The bus pulled away towards the transit camp where I was to await a troopship for the Middle East. The minimum height of a well-grown specimen must be around seven feet. I do insist, however, that recent estimates of their height as about five feet must be wrong. > What were they? For years they remained a mystery to me, but since recently I have read of scientific expeditions to discover the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas and studied descriptions of the creature given by native hillmen, I believe that on that day we may have encountered two of the animals. At each death the men behind the vacant space were moved up and the varying lengths of spare chain were an indication of the casualty rate in each group. > The length of chain dragging in the snow at the end of each section of prisoners told the tale of the men who had fallen out on the way. Three star fiction, minus one for claiming to be true.

Sławomir rawicz the long walk