The Tunnels av Greg Mitchell

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<p><b>Read the incredible true story of the daring escapes from East Berlin.</b><br><br><b>''A story with so much inherent drama.'' The Guardian</b><br><br><b>''One of the great untold stories of the Cold War.'' Alex Kershaw, author of Avenue of Spies</b><br><b>_______________</b><br><br> In the summer of 1962, the year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, a group of 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.<br><br> As Greg Mitchell''s riveting narrative unfolds we meet a host of extraordinary characters who demonstrate astonishing courage in the face of adversity: 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 young East Berliner who escapes with her baby, then marries one of the tunnellers; an engineer who would later help build the tunnel under the English Channel; and t