Trust me when I say that this story is a very good read. From prison encampments to torture rooms. From frigidly cold hikes through snow, to prison encampments in Siberia, Slavomir Rawicz seems to have endured it all; however, when he and a select group of individuals plan to escape from their hostile environment and captors, it is clear that their initial journey of close to one-thousand miles was only the beginning.

From Siberia to northern India, they encounter many hardships. Almost always in lack of provisions, constantly starving or for lack of water, it seems death is always at their heels. Barely staying out of reach, Slavomir survives this epoc of an ordeal to tell us news of him and his companions' travels of nearly 4000 miles over varying terrain.

My meager words cannot do justice to Slavomir's ordeal.

Although this true story is rather staggering to take into account, the validity of some portions of the story may be taken into question due to lack of qualifying sources - and for that I give it four stars.