The Long Walk A gamble for Life Author:Slavomir Rawicz More than four thousand miles, with neither map nor compass, equipped only with an axehead, a homemade knife and an insuperable determination to live. ...Slavomir Rawicz and six companions broke out of a Soviet slave-labor camp and walked south into the endless, crushing spaces of Siberia, headed for Tibet. — The harrowing true tale of seven esca... more »ped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.« less