Jacket by Antony Lake, back jacket illustration by John Rose (illustrator). There seems to be some controversy on the authenticity of th account. If true, it is a remarkable statement about man's desire to be free. Their march-over thousands of miles by foot-out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India in the winter of 1942. In this ghost-written book (really written by Ronald Downing based on conversations with Rawicz), the author claimed that in 1941, he and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk-a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. The author was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the NKVD (forerunner of the KGB) after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine.
Book Condition: Very Good + light bumping to head and tail light shelfwear to board edges. Book is tight, has slight spine roll, and is unmarked.
Stated 7th Printing (Impression) April 1956.
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