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Author | : Alan Burgess |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Escapes |
ISBN | : 9781591140979 |
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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.
Author | : Mary Ann Thomas |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2001-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780823959914 |
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At 33 miles long, the Seikan Railroad Tunnel is the worlds longest tunnel.
Author | : Alan Burgess |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1991-06-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780747509547 |
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A carefully researched account of how 76 British and American officers escaped from Stalag Luft III. Known as the Great Escape, this is one of the best-known escape stories of World War II. Only three escapees reached freedom and over 50 were executed on Hitler's orders.
Author | : Susan Mitchell |
Publisher | : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2007-07-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0836883659 |
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Introduces long tunnels, including the Laerdal Tunnel, the Chunnel, and the Seikan Tunnel.
Author | : Mike Meserole |
Publisher | : Young Voyageur |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2017-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0760354391 |
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Nearly 100 Allied prisoners of war attempt to break out of a suppsedly "escape-proof" Nazi camp in 1944 by secretly creating a 350-foot tunnel.
Author | : Susan K. Mitchell |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2008-09-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1427089469 |
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Mega structures takes a close look at some of the tallest, longest, and largest structures in the world. Each book lets the reader in on the challenges, dangers, and successes in building these colossal structures....
Author | : Andrew R. Black |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2020-10-14 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0807174092 |
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The Hoosac railroad tunnel in the mountains of northwestern Massachusetts was a nineteenth-century engineering and construction marvel, on par with the Brooklyn Bridge, Transcontinental Railroad, and Erie Canal. The longest tunnel in the Western Hemisphere at the time (4.75 miles), it took nearly twenty-five years (1851‒1875), almost two hundred casualties, and tens of millions of dollars to build. Yet it failed to deliver on its grandiose promise of economic renewal for the commonwealth, and thus is little known today. Andrew R. Black’s Buried Dreams refreshes public memory of the project, explaining how a plan of such magnitude and cost came to be in the first place, what forces sustained its completion, and the factors that inhibited its success. Black digs into the special case of Massachusetts, a state disadvantaged by nature and forced repeatedly to reinvent itself to succeed economically. The Hoosac Tunnel was just one of the state’s efforts in this cycle of decline and rejuvenation, though certainly the strangest. Black also explores the intense rivalry among Eastern Seaboard states for the spoils of western expansion in the post‒Erie Canal period. His study interweaves the lure of the West, the competition between Massachusetts and archrival New York, the railroad boom and collapse, and the shifting ground of state and national politics. The psychic makeup of Americans before and after the Civil War heavily influenced public perceptions of the tunnel; by the time it was finished, Black contends, the indomitable triumphalism that had given birth to the Hoosac had faded to skepticism and cynicism. Anticipated economic benefits never arrived, and Massachusetts eventually sold the tunnel for only a fraction of its cost to a private railroad company. Buried Dreams tells a story of America’s reckoning with the perils of impractical idealism, the limits of technology to bend nature to its will, and grand endeavors untempered by humility.
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Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 57 |
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ISBN | : 1427089477 |
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Author | : Yvonne Rogenmoser |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2016-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0735842574 |
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First published in Switzerland under the title Uber den Gotthard.
Author | : Mike Meserole |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781402757051 |
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A spine-tingling, suspenseful true story of escape during World War II. Spring, 1943; Stalag Luft III, Germany: every prisoner in the Nazi camps had one thought in mind--to get out. The organization was in place, with men digging hidden passageways and squads dispersing yellow sand in the middle of soccer scrimmages. Forgers worked to create false travel documents. Tailors stitched up civilian suits from blankets. Their goal? To break out of an "escape-proof” German prison camp and raise havoc throughout the German countryside. The stakes were high, however: anyone caught would be executed. Author Mike Meserole keeps the tension high in this newly-written tale filled with daring and danger. Kids will hang on to every word.