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Book Synopsis The Longest Tunnel by : Alan Burgess
Download or read book The Longest Tunnel written by Alan Burgess and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis The Longest Tunnel by : Alan Burgess
Download or read book The Longest Tunnel written by Alan Burgess and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Seikan Railroad Tunnel by : Mary Ann Thomas
Download or read book The Seikan Railroad Tunnel written by Mary Ann Thomas and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2001-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 33 miles long, the Seikan Railroad Tunnel is the worlds longest tunnel.
Download or read book The Great Escape written by Mike Meserole and published by Young Voyageur. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Longest Tunnel by : Alan Burgess
Download or read book The Longest Tunnel written by Alan Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Longest Tunnels by : Susan Mitchell
Download or read book The Longest Tunnels written by Susan Mitchell and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2007-07-07 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces long tunnels, including the Laerdal Tunnel, the Chunnel, and the Seikan Tunnel.
Book Synopsis MEGA STRUCTURES: THE LONGEST TUNNELS (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) by :
Download or read book MEGA STRUCTURES: THE LONGEST TUNNELS (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Longest Tunnels by : Susan K. Mitchell
Download or read book The Longest Tunnels written by Susan K. Mitchell and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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....
Book Synopsis Crossing the Gotthard by : Yvonne Rogenmoser
Download or read book Crossing the Gotthard written by Yvonne Rogenmoser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Switzerland under the title Uber den Gotthard.
Download or read book The Great Escape written by Mike Meserole and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Longest Tunnel by : Kelly L. Borchelt
Download or read book The Longest Tunnel written by Kelly L. Borchelt and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the construction and history of the world's longest and deepest tunnel, the Seikan Tunnel in Japan, which connects Honshu to Hokkaido by rail.
Download or read book Buried Dreams written by Andrew R. Black and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis MEGA STRUCTURES: THE LONGEST TUNNELS (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) by :
Download or read book MEGA STRUCTURES: THE LONGEST TUNNELS (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Highway under the Hudson by : Robert W. Jackson
Download or read book Highway under the Hudson written by Robert W. Jackson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 "There is no comparable book on this tunnel. Highly recommended."—Choice Reviews Every year, more than thirty-three million vehicles traverse the Holland Tunnel, making their way to and from Jersey City and Lower Manhattan. From tourists to commuters, many cross the tunnel's 1.6-mile corridor on a daily basis, and yet few know much about this amazing feat of early 20th-century engineering. How was it built, by whom, and at what cost? These and many other questions are answered in Highway Under the Hudson: A History of the Holland Tunnel, Robert W. Jackson's fascinating story about this seminal structure in the history of urban transportation. Jackson explains the economic forces which led to the need for the tunnel, and details the extraordinary political and social politicking that took place on both sides of the Hudson River to finally enable its construction. He also introduces us to important figures in the tunnel's history, such as New Jersey Governor Walter E. Edge, who, more than anyone else, made the dream of a tunnel a reality and George Washington Goethals (builder of the Panama Canal and namesake of the Goethals Bridge), the first chief engineer of the project. Fully illustrated with more than 50 beautiful archival photographs and drawings, Jackson's story of the Holland Tunnel is one of great human drama, with heroes and villains, that illustrates how great things are accomplished, and at what price. Highway Under the Hudson featured in the New York Times Listen to Robert Jackson talk about the book on WAMC Radio
Book Synopsis MEGA STRUCTURES: THE LONGEST TUNNELS (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) by :
Download or read book MEGA STRUCTURES: THE LONGEST TUNNELS (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tunnels written by Chris Oxlade and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2005-12-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition asks some great questions. When did people first build tunnels? Where is the world's longest tunnel? What keeps tunnels from collapsing? You'll find the answers to these questions and many more in Building Amazing Structures. Each book in the series looks at some of today's most amazing structures from around the world. Begin your journey by reading about similar structures in history and how they were built. Then discover the techniques and materials that today's engineers and builders use to make even more amazing structures. Finally, learn about structures that failed and why.
Book Synopsis Alexander the Great by : John Gunther
Download or read book Alexander the Great written by John Gunther and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some say he was the greatest warrior in history, building an empire that extended from Europe to Africa and on to India and Central Asia. In a stirring narrative, famed historian John Gunther tells the story of Alexander the Great who, at only age 21, became King of Macedonia and set off on a 12-year journey to conquer the known world and extend the boundaries of Greek civilization. Gunther takes us from Alexander’s boyhood to his victory over the Persian Empire, and, in vivid detail, describes Alexander’s battles, as well as the palace intrigues that surrounded him.
