Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

This narrative nonfiction reads like a real life historical thriller, detailing how 29 people escaped from East Berlin to freedom in the West by tunneling under the Berlin Wall at the height of the Cold War in 1962. I was stunned by how much I didn't know about German and local history, and utterly shocked to discover this escape was not only filmed but funded by the U.S. news outlet NBC. Merriman relied on interviews with survivors and Stasi documents to bring this true story to life.