I recently finished The Long Walk, the story of a handful of dudes in the late 1930s/early 40s who were sentenced to decades of hard labor in Siberian prison camps. And they escaped. It's also been turned into a movie but the director took license, apparently, because no one actually ate anyone on the trip. Which is both good and bad, I guess.
Also, apparently the dude didn't actually escape, he was set free, which I didn't know until two seconds ago when I glanced at the Christian Science Monitor article linked above. I'm totally re-thinking my review now.
Anyway, the book was a really interesting story, but a very mediocre read. The story is basically a play-by-play of a long march to Siberia (two weeks on a train, a couple of months marching to the prison camp), then time in the prison camp preparing to escape, then escaping, then they walked and starved, killed some wild squirrels, snakes and stuff, made friends in Tibet, were rescued in India after almost dying in the Himalayas. While fascinating to read at the time, the book itself read more like the run-on sentence above.
Wikipedia has a bit more info on the debunking.
So, while somewhat interesting, this is a book to avoid.
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