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shcrane71

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15. The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

Reply to 1-Old-Man (Original post)

Sun Feb 17, 2013, 09:51 PM

Feb 2013

by Slavomir Rawicz

It's a true story of six prisoners escape from a Soviet labor camp in 1941, and their walk to India.

It's fiction, but I am enjoying Ken Follet's latest books, Fall of Giants and the Winter of the World. The first book covers the lead up to and fighting of WWI, and the second book is the lead up to, and fighting of WWI with the same cast of characters from the US, Germany, and Russia and their children.

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