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Author Merriman, Helena, author

Title Tunnel 29 : the true story of an extraordinary escape beneath the Berlin Wall / Helena Merriman
Edition First US edition
Published New York : Public Affairs, 2021
©2021

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Description xv, 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary 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
Notes "First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Hodder & Stoughton"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304) and index
Subject 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
Escapes.
Political refugees.
Germany -- Berlin.
Germany (East)
Genre/Form History
History.
ISBN 9781541788848
1541788842
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