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Freedom trek: fleeing the Soviet Gulag, Slavomir Rawicz and six comrades--armed with almost nothing except an insatiable hunger for freedom--crossed an entire continent on foot.(History--Struggle For Freedom)
One hundred and seventy million people, observes Dr. R.J. Rummel, were murdered by governments during the first eight decades of the 20th century. In his book Death by Government, Rummel writes: "The souls of this monstrous pile of dead have created a new land, a new nation, among us"--a land he has named Golgotha.
"Its inhabitants followed all the world's religions and spoke all its languages," Rummel continues. Russians, Chinese, Ukrainians, Poles, Germans, Cambodians, Vietnamese, Latinos, Africans, European Jews--Golgotha's net has gathered from every kind of people. Unlike those killed on the battlefield in wartime, Golgothans were non-combatants killed for ...
- The passing of John Noble, Soviet Gulag survivor.(Inside Track)(Obituary)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: The New American January 7, 2008 700+ words
...year imprisonment in the notorious Soviet Gulag in his 1958 book, I Was A Slave In...July 5 as spies. As a prisoner in the Soviet Gulag, his job was to push a two-ton car...skeleton. He was released from the Soviet gulag in January 1955, after he managed to...
- Seven Thousand Days in Siberia.
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Selic, Momcilo July 25, 1988 700+ words
...his personal account of the Soviet gulag was dismissed as anti-Communist...Yugoslav Communists in the Soviet gulag whose names were on the list...allow the horrors of the Soviet gulag to be aired should not obscure...former inmates (e.g. Slavomir Rawicz' The Long Walk, ...
- National Geographic Entertainment and Imagenation Abu Dhabi Join Exclusive...
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 30, 2009 700+ words
...will star in this epic adventure, which is inspired by Slavomir Rawicz's acclaimed novel, "The Long Walk: The True Story of...National Geographic Films Chairman Jake Eberts said, "Slavomir Rawicz's book that inspired 'The Way Back' has long been considered...
- The Long Walk.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: World and I July 1, 1998 700+ words
THE LONG WALK Slavomir Rawicz, New York: Lyons Press, 1997, 242 pp., $12.95 Twenty-four-year-old Slavomir Rawicz was a promising young lieutenant in the Polish cavalry, "slim and smart in [a] well-tailored uniform and whipcord...
- Less than true story.(MAILBAG)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Geographical Butler, Roger September 1, 2008 700+ words
I was a little surprised to see that Ray Mears listed The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz in his top ten reads (Geographical, June 2008). There's no doubt that this is a cracking tale of heroism and adventure...
- The road to wisdom.(THE STRAGGLER)
- Magazine article from: National Review Derbyshire, John June 30, 2008 700+ words
...Britain (he walked from one end to the other) is still in print after 40 years, was a hero of my youth. Later I discovered Slavomir Rawicz's book The Long Walk, which describes how the author with six companions escaped from a Soviet labor camp in 1941 and...
- Weir finds his 'Way Back'.
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Fleming, Michael October 17, 2008 700+ words
...which was to star Johnny Depp. He wrote the script for "The Way Back" and based it on several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom." Book is Rawicz's account of being captured by the Red Army...
- Readers' favorite books.(Bibliography)
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter November 5, 1999 700+ words
...compassion of the American Indian. Barbara Patla Southington, Conn. The Long Walk: A True story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz (Lyons Press, 1997, $14.95) is a story of a Polish soldier who, under Russian communism, was sentenced on a bogus...
Source: HighBeam Research, Freedom trek: fleeing the Soviet Gulag, Slavomir Rawicz and six...