4.4
Biografieën
The film The Way Back, starring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris, is based on this amazing true story.
Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siberian Gulag. In the spring of 1941, he escaped with six of his fellow prisoners, including one American. Thus began their astonishing trek to freedom.
With no map or compass but only an ax head, a homemade knife, and a week’s supply of food, the compatriots spent a year making their way on foot to British India, through four thousand miles of the most forbidding terrain on earth. They braved the Himalayas, the desolate Siberian tundra, icy rivers, and the great Gobi Desert, always a hair’s breadth from death. Finally returning home, Rawicz reenlisted in the Polish army to fight the Germans.
This is his story.
© 2006 Blackstone Publishing (Luisterboek): 9781481582346
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 2 april 2006
4.4
Biografieën
The film The Way Back, starring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris, is based on this amazing true story.
Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siberian Gulag. In the spring of 1941, he escaped with six of his fellow prisoners, including one American. Thus began their astonishing trek to freedom.
With no map or compass but only an ax head, a homemade knife, and a week’s supply of food, the compatriots spent a year making their way on foot to British India, through four thousand miles of the most forbidding terrain on earth. They braved the Himalayas, the desolate Siberian tundra, icy rivers, and the great Gobi Desert, always a hair’s breadth from death. Finally returning home, Rawicz reenlisted in the Polish army to fight the Germans.
This is his story.
© 2006 Blackstone Publishing (Luisterboek): 9781481582346
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 2 april 2006
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Lisette
10 okt 2023
One of the best books I've ever read. The style of writing is beautiful. The main character in the book has to deal with the most outrageous hardships and remains louter positive. After reading this book I feel so grateful for life we have with all the small and big luxuries. 2 times I have walked a great distance of 3000km and while walking through wilderness, 4 times I have been scared of losing my life. After reading this book I think I could have done way more, the limits of the human body are expansive and can be stretched for a long time. A life changing and very inspiring book. A must read!
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