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Tunnel 29
The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
New York, NY : Public Affairs, 2021.
Format: Book
Edition: First US edition.
Description: xv, 318 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
Contents:
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.
Subjects:
Rudolph, Joachim.
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.
Tunnels -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.
Escapes -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.
Escapes -- Germany (East) -- History.
Political activists -- Germany (West) -- Biography.
Refugees -- Germany (East) -- Biography.
Rudolph, Joachim.
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.
Tunnels -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.
Escapes -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.
Escapes -- Germany (East) -- History.
Political activists -- Germany (West) -- Biography.
Refugees -- Germany (East) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781541788848
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY Europe Germany Mer | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 7/2/2024) |
HISTORY Europe Germany Mer | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
"First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Hodder & Stoughton"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304) and index.