EXPLORE THE LIBRARY 
 SEARCH FOR BOOKS 
 MY ACCOUNT 
   
Basic SearchAdvanced SearchHistory
Search:    Refine Search  
> You're searching: Marion Public Library
 
Item Information
 HoldingsHoldings
  Author Notes & Sketches
  Fiction & Biography
  First Chapter Excerpts
  
  Library Journal Review
  
  Publisher Weekly Review
  
  Summary
  Table of Contents
 
 
 More by this author
 
  •  
  • Mitchell, Greg, 1947- author.
     
     Subjects
     
  •  
  • National Broadcasting Company -- History.
     
  •  
  • Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. -- History.
     
  •  
  • Biographies.
     
  •  
  • Documentary films -- Censorship -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
     
  •  
  • Biographies.
     
     Browse Catalog
      by author:
     
  •  
  •  Mitchell, Greg, 1947- author.
     
      by title:
     
  •  
  •  The tunnels : escape...
     
     
     
     MARC Display
    The tunnels : escapes under the Berlin Wall and the historic films the JFK White House tried to kill / Greg Mitchell.
    by Mitchell, Greg, 1947- author.
    View full image
    Subjects
  • National Broadcasting Company -- History.
  •  
  • Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. -- History.
  •  
  • Biographies.
  •  
  • Documentary films -- Censorship -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
  •  
  • Biographies.
  • Publisher Info: 
    New York : Crown, [2016]
    Edition: 
    First edition.
    Description: 
    382 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
    RDA Types: 
    text
    unmediated
    volume
    ISBN: 
    9781101903858 (hardback)
    1101903856 (hardback)
    9781101903872 (paperback)
    1101903872 (paperback)
    9781101903865 (electronic)
    Contents: 
    The Cyclist -- Two Italians and a German -- The Recruits -- The President -- The Correspondent -- The Leaks -- Schorr and the Secretary -- Kiefholz Strasse -- Interrogations -- The Intruder -- The Martyr -- Coming Up Short -- Schonholzer Strasse -- Underground Film -- Threats -- The Buried Tunnel -- Sabotage -- Coming Up for Air -- Epilogue -- Cast of Characters.
    Format Book: 
    Summary: 
    "A thrilling Cold War narrative exploring two harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunneling beneath the Berlin Wall, the U.S. television networks who financed and filmed them, and the Kennedy administration's unprecedented attempt to suppress both films. In the summer of 1962, one year after East German Communists built the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans came up with a plan. They would risk prison, Stasi torture, even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall. Among the tunnelers and escape helpers were a legendary cyclist, an American student from Stanford, and an engineer who would later help build the tunnel under the English Channel. Then two U.S. television networks, NBC and CBS, heard about the secret projects, and raced to be first to air a spectacular 'inside tunnel' special on the human will for freedom. The networks funded two separate tunnels in return for exclusive rights to film the escapes. In response, President John F. Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, wary of anything that might raise tensions and force a military confrontation with the Soviets, maneuvered to quash both documentaries. Unfolding week by week, sometimes hour by hour, Greg Mitchell's riveting narrative deftly cuts back and forth from one extraordinary character to another. There's the tunneler 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 tunnelers; and broadcast legend Daniel Schorr, who battled unsuccessfully to save his film from White House interference and remained bitter about it to the end of his life. Looming over all is John F. Kennedy, who was ambivalent about--even hostile toward--the escape operations. Kennedy confessed to Dean Rusk: 'We don't care about East Berlin.' Based on extensive access to the Stasi archives, long-secret U.S. documents, and new interviews with tunnelers and refugees, The Tunnels provides both rich history and high suspense. Award-winning journalist Mitchell captures the hopes and fears of everyday Berliners; the chilling reach of the Stasi secret police; U.S. networks prepared to 'pay for play' yet willing to cave to official pressure; and a White House and State Department eager to suppress historic coverage. The result is 'breaking history,' a propulsive read whose themes reverberate even today"--
    No. of Holds: 
    0
    Add to my list 
    Copy/Holding information
    LocationCollectionCall No.Status 
    Marion Public LibraryTop Floor943.1550875 MITMissing InventoryAdd Copy to MyList

    Format:HTMLPlain textDelimited
    Subject: 
    Email to:

    Kids iPac Logo

    Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
     Powered by SirsiDynix
    © 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.
    Horizon Information Portal