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The Long Walk
Ordinarily a book review would go under that forum, but because this one has such a direct application for candidates training for the SF Pipeline, it fit better here...
THE LONG WALK: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz is the story of a Polish Cavalry Lieutenant who escaped from a Soviet Prison Camp in April 1941. He and 6 other prisoners then walked 4,000 miles through Siberia in winter, through Mongolia and the Gobi Desert in Summer; through Tibet and the Himalayan Mountains and finally to India.
The only tools they had was an axe and a knife. They left the prison camp with a week's supply of food. It took them almost 12 months to accomplish the long walk.
I'd place this third on a list of must read's before SFAS, right behind GET SELECTED and MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl.
Cast or Tab,
JM
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