Subject: Tunnels -- History (Keywords)

Have you ever wondered what made human beings want to reach for the skies by building higher and higher? And how they did it? Learn all about the the history of construction, as Jon Richards explores the medieval castles, underwater hotels, tunnels under the sea and successes and failures that ha...

Every year, more than 33 million vehicles traverse the Holland Tunnel, making their way to and from Jersey City and Lower Manhattan. In this meticulously researched and compelling work, Jackson provides a complete history of the planning, financing and construction of the Holland Tunnel..

The exciting early days of the railways were tempered with danger, as the Victorian concept of health and safety was rather different to ours. Going 'into the dark' was a frightening experience and tunneling under the ground and under water was a death-defying activity in nineteenth-century Brita...

He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in. It's summer, 1962, and Joachim Rudolph, a student, is digging a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin - dozens of men, women, and children; all willing to risk everyt...

He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in. It's summer, 1962, and Joachim Rudolph, a student, is digging a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin - dozens of men, women, and children; all willing to risk everyt...

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 projec...