e-branch	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   My Account/Renew Loans   Community Info   KidSearch   New Catalogue!

Search Advanced By Format By Number My Searches Can't Find it? Find Magazine Articles & more Problems?

Search:  Title Starts with...Title Keyword(s)Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)Subject Starts with...Subject Keyword(s)Series Starts with...Series Keyword(s)Anyword/AnywhereList Name Keyword(s)       Refine Search     > You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries

Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Merriman, Helena.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Merriman, Helena.       by title:      Tunnel 29 : the true...       by call number:      943.1550875 M571t     Search the Web     Merriman, Helena.     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.       MARC Display

Tunnel 29 : the true story of an extraordinary escape beneath the Berlin Wall / Helena Merriman. by Merriman, Helena. Public Affairs, 2021. Call #: 943.1550875 M571t 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. ISBN:  9781541788848 (hc) Alternate title:  Tunnel twenty-nine : the true story of an extraordinary escape beneath the Berlin Wall Edition:  1st US ed. Description:  xv, 318 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-304) and index. Summary:  "Based on a hit podcast series, this book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall -- the people who built it, the spy who betrayed it, and the media event it inspired. In September 1961, at the height of the Cold War, 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph escaped from East Germany, one of the world's most brutal regimes. He'd risked everything to do it. Then, a few months later, working with a group of students, he picked up a spade...and tunneled back in. The goal was to tunnel into the East to help people escape. They spend months digging, hauling up carts of dirt in a tunnel ventilated by stove pipes. But the odds are against them: a Stasi agent infiltrates their group and on their first attempt, and dozens of escapees and some of the diggers are arrested and imprisoned. Despite the risk of prison and death, a month later, Joachim and the other try again and hit more bad luck: the tunnel springs a leak. After several attempts, run-ins with a spy and secret police, and some unlikely financial aid from an American TV network, they finally break through into the East, and free 29 people. This is the story of their great escape, the NBC documentary crew that filmed it, and the U.S. government's attempts to block the film from ever seeing the light of day. But more than anything, this is the story of what people will do to be free."--Publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 943.1550875 M571t Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 943.1550875 M571t Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.