À marche forcée

Langue : French

Publié 2011 par Éditions Libretto.

ISBN :: 978-2-7529-0559-8

(1 critique)

This book is a real good read as they say. I found it on the sad side...even brings a tear to your eye.

This book should be relegated to the fiction section of the library.

There is much in Rawicz's story that makes no sense.

For example, Rawicz admitted that he had come out of the USSR with the Poles who were released after the Soviet-Polish pact, and went to Palestine where he joined the British forces. But he says that this happened after he went back to the USSR after exiting through India with his two companions. This makes no sense whatsoever. Nobody in his right mind would return to Soviet territory after escaping a Soviet camp.

Another aspect that I find problematic is his companion on the trek, Mr. Smith, an American. I should think that Mr. Smith would have become famous post war given the Cold War …

This book is a real good read as they say. I found it on the sad side...even brings a tear to your eye.

This book should be relegated to the fiction section of the library.

There is much in Rawicz's story that makes no sense.

For example, Rawicz admitted that he had come out of the USSR with the Poles who were released after the Soviet-Polish pact, and went to Palestine where he joined the British forces. But he says that this happened after he went back to the USSR after exiting through India with his two companions. This makes no sense whatsoever. Nobody in his right mind would return to Soviet territory after escaping a Soviet camp.

Another aspect that I find problematic is his companion on the trek, Mr. Smith, an American. I should think that Mr. Smith would have become famous post war given the Cold War of that era. Nor have I ever read any account by an American who was in Russia at the time who knew of an American engineer who worked on the Moscow subway. Several thousand Americans moved to the USSR in the 30's, and several of them wrote books about their lives there.

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Les polémiques concernant la véracité des faits n'entachent point la qualité du récit. Il y a du Jules Verne dans la manière de décrire cette "aventure" humaine incroyable. L'être humain y est décrit sous toutes ces facettes : de l'horreur extrême des camps de travail à l'époustouflante générosité des hôtes qui permettent la survie des personnages tout au long de leur périple. Nous aimerions croire que tout ce récit est réel mais la part d'imaginaire ne retire finalement rien à la beauté de l'expérience relatée.

Sujets

Biography
Concentration camp escapes
Description and travel
Escapes
Polish Personal narratives
Prisoners of war
Russian Prisoners and prisons
World War, 1939-1945
World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, polish
World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, russian
Concentration camps
World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, russian
Siberia (russia), biography
Siberia (russia), history

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