Tunnel 29 Helena Merriman

HODDER & STOUGHTON

I love a Cold War story, especially when it involves the two Berlins. This story – with Stasi spies and harrowing anecdotes from behind East Berlin prison gates – reads like a thriller. It’s 1962, a year after the Wall was erected overnight to keep the inhabitants of communist East Berlin from defecting to the West. Thousands of families were split up. This is the story of Joachim Rudolph, an engineering student and recent escapee from the East, who helped dig a tunnel under the Wall to free dozens from the brutal regime.