The Long Walk

Constable, London, 1956, 5th reprint before publication, fair condition, no dustwrapper, spine faded, first two pages have a small chunk ripped out, heavily foxed on front and back pages and page block, binding firm.

The stirring account of one of the most terrible journeys ever made by man. In a desperate attempt to escape the inhuman cruelties of the Soviet Secret Police, Polish officer Slavomir Rawicz and six companions escaped from a prison camp in the Arctic Circle and in a year walked 4000 miles to India. They were joined by a Polish girl who was fated to die of exhaustion in the burning wastes of the Gobi desert. Without food or drink for days on end, only four of them survived as `walking skeletons' to reach the Indian frontier...