Rawicz, Slavomir

in 1941, the author and six fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk where hunger, cold, untended wounds. untreated illness, and daily executions were everyday fare. Their route took them thousands of miles on foot---out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India and freedom.

The author describes his escape with a small group of fellow prisoners from a Soviet labor camp in 1941 and their subsequent trek out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, and Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.