My mind is in conflict about this book, I really don’t know whether or not I like it or slightly dislike it. Publisher: The Lyons Press 1997-originally published in 1956 " It is a book filled with the spirit of human dignity and the courage of men seeking freedom." " One of the most amazing heroic stories of this or any other time." After a short stint in the camp, the author puts together a team and escapes, only to begin the seemingly immpossible walk to India, a journey of some 4,000 miles. Chronicles his 3,000 mile journey by train from Moscow to Urkutsk and the thousand mile walk to Camp 303 on the Lena River, some two to three-hundred miles southwest of the capital of Northern Siberia - Yakutsk, in the winter of 1940/41. The story of a young, Polish Cavalry officer that was arrested, tried and sentenced to 25 years of forced labor in a Siberian 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.
Product Description From the back cover ~ In 1941, the author and a small group of fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp.
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