{"product_id":"9781628732443","title":"Looking for Mr. Smith: The Quest for the Truth Behind The Long Walk, the Greatest Survival Story Ever Told","description":"Since 1956, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Walk\u003c\/i\u003e has been, for many, the symbol of an immense love of freedom and has become one of the greatest true-life adventure stories of all time. The harrowing story about a group of POWs who escaped a labor camp in Siberia and walked to freedom in India during WWII deeply affected thousands of its readers, and Linda Willis was one of those moved by the story. But she had questions about its authenticity: \u003cul\u003e     \u003cli\u003e Was it all true?     \u003c\/li\u003e     \u003cli\u003e What happened after their arrival in India?     \u003c\/li\u003e     \u003cli\u003e Were there others involved in the story?     \u003c\/li\u003e     \u003cli\u003e Who was Mr. Smith? \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e Though she was not a trained researcher, Willis felt compelled to look at some of the most powerful aspects of the story and to try to dig to the core of the truth behind \u003ci\u003eThe Long Walk\u003c\/i\u003e. Willis’s investigation took her down unforeseen byways with many hours spent unraveling facts, truths, half-truths, rumors, and the like. She waded through archives, wrote and spoke to hundreds of people, and continued to seek out and verify the details of the greatest adventure narrative ever written. The path of Willis’s research will be a model for anyone attempting a similar search and who has ever thought about the story behind a book. No one who reads \u003ci\u003eLooking for Mr. Smith\u003c\/i\u003e will ever think of \u003ci\u003eThe Long Walk\u003c\/i\u003e in the same way.","brand":"Skyhorse Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151837249776,"sku":"9781628732443","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781628732443_p0.jpg?v=1763866471","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781628732443","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}