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posted at 20/9/2004 11:12 PM BST
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Total posts: 3246
First post: 31/8/2003 Last post: 22/10/2009 |
Originally posted by chocolatedrop:o :D Whoopsie chocky here ya go The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to the Siberian Gulag along with other captive Poles, Finns, Ukranians, Czechs, Greeks, and even a few English, French, and American unfortunates who had been caught up in the fighting. A year later, he and six comrades from various countries escaped from a labor camp in Yakutsk and made their way, on foot, thousands of miles south to British India, where Rawicz reenlisted in the Polish army and fought against the Germans. The Long Walk recounts that adventure, which is surely one of the most curious treks in history. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review "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 "The long walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget. . ."--Stephen Ambrose Ingram In 1941, Slavomir Rawicz and six fellow prisoners escaped from a Siberian labor camp and walked across 4,000 miles of the most forbidding terrain on Earth to freedom. This is their astonishing story. 8 cassettes. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. From the Back Cover In 1941, the author and a small group of fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp. Their march 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. With a new Afterword by the author, and the author's Foreword to the Polish edition, this new edition of The Long Walk is destined to outrank its classic status. (6 X 9, 256 pages, map) "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 "The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget..." --Stephen Ambrose Book Description The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India. :) And we think we got it hard ? xx |
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posted at 21/9/2004 11:54 AM BST
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Total posts: 1904
First post: 5/9/2003 Last post: 4/6/2007 |
Originally posted by duophonicI was wary of reading his novels, as celebrities' books are almost always rubbish, but then I decided to give one a go as it's Stephen Fry and he's fabulous and everything he does is great. I read Making History and then The Stars' Tennis Balls and really liked both of them, although The Stars' Tennis Balls as a bit nasty and you lose sympathy for the main character towards the end, which I don't think was the idea. But I want to read all his others now, he's ace. :D |
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posted at 21/9/2004 2:57 PM BST
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Total posts: 3293
First post: 27/6/2003 Last post: 18/11/2009 |
god i have loads my friend and i have started up a book club (ahem of two people tres sad!) and we are going to start 100 strokes of brush before bedtime cannot wait. in the meantime (she is on hols at mo) i am readin lazy ways to make a living. got it free with marie claire. it is ok. not sure if i like it but as i love books itll do! xx |
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posted at 22/9/2004 6:11 PM BST
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Total posts: 469
First post: 29/2/2004 Last post: 9/9/2008 |
just finished 'in the company of cheerful ladies' (top light reading, as usual) and halfway through 'maharanis', the new lucy moore biography - excellent writing and very well-balanced from a historical point of view, but *such* a cheat...it is basically a re-hash of gayatri devi's autobiography, 'a princess remembers', right down to the exact same damn photographs... |
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posted at 22/9/2004 7:31 PM BST
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Total posts: 2595
First post: 13/6/2004 Last post: 2/5/2009 |
Just finished Remember Me by Fay Weldon-bit dated but still resonant. Am mid-way through Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson -short stories so I can dip in to it when I'm not reading books for work.:rolleyes: |
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posted at 23/9/2004 12:20 PM BST
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Total posts: 196
First post: 3/12/2003 Last post: 21/3/2005 |
Have just finished Graham Greene's "The End of the Affair". Well written and atmospheric and all that (striking matches in a phone box to light up the dial before making a call because of the blackout during the war). But didnt really enjoy it - bit too much overwrought theologising for me. "Where are you God? Do you exist? If you do I hate you for taking her. But how can I hate you when you don't exist" and so on for pages.... Need to buy my next book today as am doing a longish flight on Sunday. May try the Stephen Fry recommended here or one of the Booker prize nominations. I quite like the sound of Cloud Atlas. |
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posted at 23/9/2004 1:59 PM BST
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Total posts: 346
First post: 9/1/2004 Last post: 17/2/2005 |
Loved Stephen Fry books as a teenager but in more recent years I've got bored of them. End up thinking that if he's that clever he should be able to write something far more interesting; it all seems so pedestrian under the references and 'sixth-form words' (as he used to call them), and he's just a bit too samey. Never read The Stars' Tennis Balls or Hippopotamus as I'd heard so many bad reviews & didn't want to increase my disappointment. |
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posted at 24/9/2004 12:26 PM BST
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Total posts: 726
First post: 1/4/2003 Last post: 16/2/2005 |
Originally posted by beauty_junkie Gave up on that book - thought it was rubbish!! Couldn't get into another one of hers I bought either. Am reading Adele Parks - Playing Away - and loving it! |
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