Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales and Slavomir Rawicz' The Long Walk Book review

Rob reviews two classic books:
Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours. This new enlarged edition combines two collections previously published in the United States as Kolyma Tales and Graphite.
The long road by Slavomir Rawicz
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. 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.
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Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales and Slavomir Rawicz' The Long Walk Book review
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[@unkorichie2029]

One of my favorite books

[@troig43]

Hi. A lot of people (including myself) doubt the authenticity of The Long Walk. I reckon it has pretty much been discredited.
Rawicz' military and prison records do not align with the books timeline etc. Form what I've seen on the web, there were people in WW2 who did similar treks, but not Rawicz. Well, the reader makes up his own mind.
Stay safe.

[@vishalmalhotra3217]

Thanks for the awesome Review