TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitchell,Greg
TI  - The tunnels: the untold story of the escapes under the Berlin Wall 
SN  - 9780593075968 (hbk.) :
AV  - DD900 
U1  - 943.155 MIT 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Bantam Press
KW  - Kennedy, John F.
KW  - National Broadcasting Company
KW  - History
KW  - Columbia Broadcasting System, inc
KW  - Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
KW  - Tunnels
KW  - Germany
KW  - Berlin
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Escapes
KW  - Germany (East)
KW  - Political activists
KW  - Germany (West)
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - Censorship
KW  - United States
KW  - ukslc
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
ER  -