Tunnel 29 : the true story of an extraordinary escape beneath the Berlin Wall
(2021)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
943.155087/MERRIMAN,H

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 943.155087/MERRIMAN,H Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Public Affairs, 2021
©2021
EDITION
First US edition
DESCRIPTION

xv, 318 pages, 18 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781541788848, 1541788842, 9781541788848
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Hodder & Stoughton"--Title page verso

Foreword -- The beach -- The first escape -- The long walk -- The rebrand -- The smuggler -- The radio -- The tank -- A thousand little things -- The house of one thousand eyes -- Operation Rose -- Mousetrap -- Snow -- The escapes -- The boy in short pants -- Valley of the clueless -- Binoculars -- The watch-tower -- The camp -- The spy -- The file -- Evi and Peter (and Walter and Wilhelm too) -- The Girrmann group -- The house of the future -- The factory -- Concrete -- The cemetery -- Shift-work -- A new name -- The bomb -- Blisters -- The TV producer -- The deal -- New York -- Cameras -- Umbrellas -- Death strip -- Wilhelm, again -- Ground rules -- The leak -- The second tunnel -- The lovers -- The day before -- 7 August -- Hohenschönhausen -- Mole-hunt -- Silence -- The show trial -- The butcher -- Claus's story -- Paris -- Numbers -- The last visit -- The messenger -- Investigations -- Maps -- Reuven -- 14 September -- Walter and Wilhelm -- The search -- Film-reel -- The bug -- The pushchair -- The party -- The canoe -- The plane -- The second party -- The press conference -- The library -- A message -- The film -- The letter -- Hamlet -- The gold Mercedes -- Final report -- Airborne -- Epilogue

In a book based on the podcast series, a broadcast journalist tells the unbelievable true story of 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph, who, in 1961, set out to build an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall and was faced with many obstacles before freeing 29 people

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