and historical research Various people have researched the veracity of the story. Examples include: Witold Gliński, a Polish survivor of the war, claimed that he was the person who did "the long walk". Reader's Digest published his story in 2009. Leszek Gliniecki, another Polish war survivor, claims to have multiple documents showing that Gliński could not have been there. Linda Willis did a decade of research on most parts of the story, without reaching a definite conclusion, but cleared up some details. Leszek Gliniecki has copies of official documents which state that Witold Gliński was born in 1926 (22 November), was sent into forced exile to a special settlement Kriesty in Arkhangelsk Oblast (Province), Russia, and stayed there from 24 February 1940 to 2 September 1941. This is confirmed by the international organisation "Memorial", the Polish Institute of National Remembrance and the Arkhangelsk Province archives. The above information would not allow Witold Gliński to have taken part in the Long Walk. Archives of the Polish Army in the West, and his death certificate confirm that Witold Gliński was born in 1926. Citations from: 1. "Memorial": Victims of political terrorism in USSR; 2. Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN): INDEKS REPRESJONOWANYCH (Index of Victims of Soviet Repression) tom XIV częśc (part)2; 3. Arhangelsk Department of Internal Affairs, Information Centre; 4. Ministry of Defence, APC POLISH ENQUIRES, Ruislip England, 5. Certified copy of an entry (BAX 935402) that Witold Gliński was born on 22 November 1926, and died on 19 April 2013. Bibliography See also Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, an author of an account of escape from Siberia during the Russian Civil War in the 1920s. Books Looking for Mr. Smith (2010), book by Linda Willis, documenting her research into the story behind The Long Walk and her findings. Random Acts of Heroic Love (2007), a semi-biographical novel by Danny Scheinmann, about a man who escaped a POW camp in Siberia in 1917 and spent three years walking home to his village in Poland. Based on a true story of the author's grandfather. Seven Years in Tibet, an autobiographic travel book by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, who escaped from British India into Tibet during the Second World War. Films The Desperate Ones (1967), about two Polish brothers escaping the gulag in Siberia. They undertake an attempt to make it to the border with Afghanistan. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001),