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by Jack Mallan (As Told by), Lloyd Mallan (As Told to), Rob Mallan (With)
January 1945. Germany was frozen. The war was collapsing. And twelve hundred American prisoners of war were ordered to march. The command was simple: Keep moving or be shot.
Master Sergeant Jack Mallan was one of them.
A Jewish-American soldier captured in France, Jack had already been wounded in battle, starved in captivity, and imprisoned in four Nazi prison camps. But as the Third Reich began to fall, his fight to survive was far from over. Forced into the bitter cold with hundreds of other prisoners, Jack endured one of the most brutal chapters of his life - a death march across frozen Europe, where every step demanded courage, grit, and the will to live.
Some men fell.
Some men vanished.
Some men never made it home.
But Jack refused to fall.
He carried his will to live one frozen step at a time.
For nearly fifty years, his manuscript remained hidden in a battered trunk in Florida, its fragile pages quietly carrying a story the world had not yet heard.
Preserved through the faithful work of his brother, Lloyd Mallan, the manuscript became more than a record of war. It became a sacred family witness.
Then Jack's grandson, Rob Mallan, found it.
Today, Jack's manuscript, medals, military jacket, cane, and wartime artifacts are housed at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, helping preserve the memory of one soldier's journey through one of humanity's darkest chapters.
The Long March Home is the true account of Master Sergeant Jack Mallan - soldier, prisoner of war, survivor, and witness. More than a war memoir, this is a testimony of courage, suffering, survival, and truth. At a time when history is too often forgotten, questioned, or denied, Jack Mallan's story calls us to remember the cost, protect the truth, and choose courage before history repeats itself.
