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      • The film is loosely based on The Long Walk (1956), Sławomir Rawicz 's memoir depicting his alleged escape from a Siberian Gulag and subsequent 4,000-mile walk to freedom in India. The book sold over 500,000 copies and is credited with inspiring many explorers.
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  2. Dec 4, 2010 · The story was The Long Walk, a gripping account of a Polish officer's imprisonment in the Soviet gulag in 1940, his escape and then a trek of 4,000 miles (6,437km) from Siberia to India,...

  3. The Long Walk, by Slavomir Rawicz, purports to be the true story of an heroic flight to freedom. He claims to have been a Polish officer grabbed by the Russians in 1939, imprisoned and marched to "camp 303" in Siberia. From there he and six companions escape, with the help of the commandants wife.

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  4. Jul 26, 2024 · Penned under his pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1979, The Long Walk was King's first stab at dystopian fiction and was something of a departure from the usual small-town monsters and ghouls that typically populate his works.

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  5. The film is inspired by The Long Walk (1956), the memoir by former Polish prisoner of war Sławomir Rawicz, who claimed to have escaped from a Soviet Gulag and walked 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to freedom in World War II.

  6. Apr 26, 2007 · After a three-month journey in the dead of winter to Siberia, life in a Soviet labour camp meant enduring hunger, extreme cold, untreated wounds and illnesses and facing the daily risk of arbitrary execution. Realising that to remain meant almost certain death, Rawicz, along with six companions, escaped.

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  7. Aug 24, 2018 · The Long Walk was written by King when he was a college student, majoring in English at the University of Maine, in 1966-7. He sent the manuscript off to a major publisher as part of a first-novel competition and quickly received a form rejection.

  8. Apr 1, 2016 · In 1941, the author 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.

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