The Tunnels: The Untold Story of the Escapes Under the Berlin Wall [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1963] SandstrFom, GFosta E.

In the summer of 1962 one year after the rise of the Berlin Wall a group of daring young West Germans risked prison Stasi torture and even death to liberate friends lovers and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall Then as the worlds press heard about the secret projects two television networks raced to be the first to document them from the inside funding two separate tunnels for exclusive rights to film the escapes In response President John F Kennedy and his administration wary of anything that might raise tensions and force a military confrontation with the Soviets maneuvered to quash both documentaries As Greg Mitchells riveting narrative unfolds we meet extraordinary characters the legendary cyclist who became East Berlins most wanted man the tunneller who had already served four years in the East German gulag the Stasi informer who betrays the CBS tunnel the young East Berliner who escapes with her baby then marries one of the tunnellers and an engineer who w