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Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp—a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration and the country alive. Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of one such survivor, a former military official who spent six years in a gulag and experienced firsthand the brutality of an unconscionable regime.

On a cold May morning in 1940, Adrian Vincent arrived in France with his battalion. His war didn’t last long. Within five days the Siege of Calais was over, and nearly all his comrades were killed, wounded or, like him, taken prisoner. After a brutal journey across the breadth of Germany, Vincent and his fellow survivors began their life in Stalag VIIIB, set to work in terrible conditions down a Polish mine. For the next five years, they waged a war not against enemy soldiers but instead versus monotony, disease, cruelty, starvation, and hopelessness.

Have you ever thought about your childhood teachers' lives outside of school? This is the story of cherished educator, John “Yo” Strang and the secrets he silently carried as a WWII P.O.W. Executive Produced by Sam Strang and narrated by Jakob Lewis of Great Feeling Studios. Includes interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham, historian Duke Richey, and more. Find out what nobody knew about their beloved teacher.