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Tunnel 29 : The True Story Of An Extraordinary Escape Beneath The Berlin Wall
—Merriman, Helena, author.
2021

EAudiobook

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.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9781549193026
  • 9781549163166

Description:

  • 1 sound file : digital
  • digital
  • digital stereo
  • audio file

Other Title: Tunnel twenty-nine

Notes:

  • "First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Hodder & Stoughton"--Title page verso
  • Electronic audio file.
  • Electronic reproduction. New York Hachette Audio 2021 Available via World Wide Web.

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.

Control Number: 3426911

Publisher: New York : Public Affairs, 2021.
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