| Description |
xii, 242 p. : map ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Reprint. Originally published: London : Constable, 1956. |
| Contents |
Kharkov and Lubyanka -- Trial and sentence -- From prison to cattle truck -- Three thousand miles by train -- Chain gang -- End of the journey -- Life in Camp 303 -- The wife of the commissar -- Plans for escape -- Seven across the Lena River -- Baikal and a fugitive girl -- Kristina joins the party -- Across the Trans-Siberian Railway -- Eight enter Mongolia -- Life among the friendly Mongols -- The Gobi Desert : hunger, drought and death -- Snake meat and mud -- The last of the Gobi -- Six enter Tibet -- Five by-pass Lhasa -- Himalayan foothills -- Strange creatures -- Four reach India. |
| Summary |
Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. 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. |
| Subject |
Rawicz, Slavomir.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Russian.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Polish.
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Escapes -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
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Prisoners of war -- Poland -- Biography.
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Prisoners of war -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
1558216847 (pbk.) |
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9781558216846 (pbk.) |
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1558216340 (cloth) |
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9781558216341 (cloth) |
| Standard No. |
NZ1 4920387 |
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