The Longest Tunnel

Recounts the escape attempt of seventy-six Allied POWs, three of whom made it to safety, and describes the trial of the Gestapo who killed recaptured POWs

Nearly 100 Allied prisoners of war attempt to break out of a supposedly 'escape-proof' Nazi camp in 1944 by secretly creating a 350-foot tunnel.

Introduces long tunnels, including the Laerdal Tunnel, the Chunnel, and the Seikan Tunnel.

At 33 miles long, the Seikan Railroad Tunnel is the worlds longest tunnel.

First published in 1990 and based on sources not available for Paul Brickhill's earlier work, the book tells how on the night of March 24, 1944, seventy-six Allied POWs slid through a 350-foot tunnel and out of a high-security German prison camp, into history.

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