by Slavomir Rawicz
Published 1956
This is a fascinating book. It is the true story of a small group of men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp and walked to India. INDIA, people, from SIBERIA. ACROSS THE DESERT AND THE MOUNTAINS.
I definitely recommend this book. It is actually a reasonably fast read. Rawicz’s narrative is easy to follow and completely fascinating. Although it is also rather dark and sad (for obvious reasons). He is obviously a haunted man, but eventually he ended up in England, where he married and had a family, so his life, at least, had a happy ending.
But this story of survival is simply brilliant, and the kind of book that everyone should read, if for no other reason than to remind ourselves of how incredibly easy our lives are. Books like this make me stop complaining and start being thankful.
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