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The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows

by Brian Castner

Published: 2013-04-09

Paperback: 240 pages

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Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them in Iraq as the head of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit. Whenever IEDs were discovered, he and his men would lead the way in either disarming the deadly devices or searching through rubble and remains for clues to ...

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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (Library Edition)

by Slavomir Rawicz

Published: 2007-04-01

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Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award The film The Way Back, starring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris, is based on this amazing true story. Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siber...

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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

by Slavomir Rawicz

Published: 1997-12-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners? desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was se...

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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

by Slavomir Rawicz

Published: 2006-04-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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"I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves."--Slavomir RawiczIn 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk--a camp where endurin...

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A Long Way Down

by Nick Hornby

Published: 2006-05-02

Paperback: 368 pages

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A wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity, and About A Boy.Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they’ve reached the end of the line. In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Hornby...

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A Long Way From Chicago (Puffin Modern Classics)

by Richard Peck

Published: 2004-04-12

Paperback: 148 pages

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Join Joey and his sister Mary Alice as they spend nine unforgettable summers with the worst influence imaginable-their grandmother!

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A Long Way Gone [CD] (Audiobook)

by Ismael Beah

Published: 2007

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In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What does war look like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled...

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

Published: 2007-02-13

Hardcover: 240 pages

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My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?”“Because there is a war.”“You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?”“Yes, all the time.”“Cool.”I smile a little.“You ...

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A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

Published: 2008-01-07

Paperback: 400 pages

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Long Way Home

by Laura Caldwell

Published: 2010-09-14

Kindle Edition: 320 pages

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Nineteen-year-old Jovan Mosley, a good kid from one of Chicago's very bad neighborhoods, was coerced into confessing to a crime he didn?t commit. Charged with murder, he spent five years and eight months in a prison for violent criminals. Without a trial.Jovan grew up on the rough streets ...