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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good dj. Illustrated by (dj) [Nat] Falk (illustrator). First Edition. [book is worn and externally soiled, aging/spotting to edges of text block, small dampstains at lower right corner of front cover and upper left corner of rear cover, a little insect damage to bottom edge of text block; the jacket is slightly wrinkled and lightly soiled, with a number of tiny edge-nicks, shallow chipping at upper front hinge]. Uncommon novelization of an episode from World War I involving the "Road of Death, an obscure trail leading across the Albanian Mountains from Galicia to the Adriatic Sea," over which in 1915, "when the Serbs were no longer able to withstand the withering onslaught of the Austro-German offensive, sixty thousand prisoners of war were marched in haste toward Italian prison camps. In the mountains and wildernesses, forty-five thousand died within three weeks, from hunger, cold or exhaustion." The author, one of the surviving prisoners, here "recounts the fate of seven men who, after escaping from their guard, seek freedom in the endless wastes of snow.".