"I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves." Guaranteed to forever stay in the reader''s mind, The Long Walk will remain a testament to the strength of the human spirit, and the universal desire for freedom and dignity. Their march-over thousands of miles by foot-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. In 1941, the author and six fellow prisoners of war escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk-a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, and untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. The classic adventure story that inspired the new major motion picture The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir
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