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- 549 páginas
- 20 horas de lectura
Sławomir Rawicz Orden de los libros (cronológico)
1 de septiembre de 1915 – 5 de abril de 2004
La narrativa de Slavomir Rawicz narra una supuesta fuga épica de un gulag siberiano y un posterior y arduo viaje a través de Asia. Si bien los registros históricos han puesto en duda la verdad literal de su relato, la historia en sí misma profundiza en temas importantes de supervivencia, resiliencia y el espíritu humano inquebrantable. Ya sea un hecho o un embellecimiento, el cuento de Rawicz ofrece una exploración convincente de la resistencia frente a probabilidades inimaginables, capturando la imaginación con su cruda representación de una búsqueda de la libertad.
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.Since its publication the story has come under some criticism as being invented rather than factually true.