TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitchell,Greg
TI  - The tunnels: the untold story of the escapes under the Berlin Wall 
SN  - 9780593075968
U1  - 943.1550875 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Bantam Press
KW  - Kennedy, John F.
KW  - Columbia Broadcasting System, inc
KW  - History
KW  - National Broadcasting Company
KW  - Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
KW  - Political activists
KW  - Germany (West)
KW  - Biography
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Germany (East)
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - Censorship
KW  - United States
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Escapes
KW  - Germany
KW  - Berlin
KW  - Tunnels
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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 world's 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 Mitchell's riveting narrative unfolds, we meet extraordinary characters: the legendary cyclist who became East Berlin's 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 would later help build the tunnel under the English Channel
ER  -