Author: Alan Burgess
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781591140979
Category : Escapes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
The Longest Tunnel
Author: Alan Burgess
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781591140979
Category : Escapes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781591140979
Category : Escapes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
The Tunnel Under the World
Author: Frederik Pohl
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781729600764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Pinching yourself is no way to see if you are dreaming. Surgical instruments? Well, yes-but a mechanic's kit is best of all!
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781729600764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Pinching yourself is no way to see if you are dreaming. Surgical instruments? Well, yes-but a mechanic's kit is best of all!
Tunnel in the Sky
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416505512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
High school students enter a time gate to an unknown planet for a survival test, but something goes wrong and they have to learn to survive by their own resourcefulness.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416505512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
High school students enter a time gate to an unknown planet for a survival test, but something goes wrong and they have to learn to survive by their own resourcefulness.
The World's Oldest Subway | The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel | Museum Plan
Author: Bob Diamond
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329688570
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The history of the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel. The world's oldest subway built in 1844 by the Long Island Rail Road. Sealed in 1861, with a circa 1830's steam locomotive left buried behind a wall. Said to contain the lost diary pages of John Wiles Booth, assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, exposing an over 150 year old conspiracy. Plan for the reuse of the Tunnel as an historic attraction, possibly featuring streaming full immersion 3-D holographic video, more.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329688570
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The history of the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel. The world's oldest subway built in 1844 by the Long Island Rail Road. Sealed in 1861, with a circa 1830's steam locomotive left buried behind a wall. Said to contain the lost diary pages of John Wiles Booth, assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, exposing an over 150 year old conspiracy. Plan for the reuse of the Tunnel as an historic attraction, possibly featuring streaming full immersion 3-D holographic video, more.
Tunnel Kids
Author: Lawrence J. Taylor
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816519262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Drawing on two summers spent with the kids who live in drainage tunnels connecting Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona, the authors present a verbal and pictoral portrait of the displaced and sometimes heroic young people whose stories add a human dimension to the world of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816519262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Drawing on two summers spent with the kids who live in drainage tunnels connecting Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona, the authors present a verbal and pictoral portrait of the displaced and sometimes heroic young people whose stories add a human dimension to the world of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Birdsong
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307820386
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s In this "overpowering and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land. Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient, crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307820386
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s In this "overpowering and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land. Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient, crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love.
The World's Work
Author: Walter Hines Page
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
A history of our time.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
A history of our time.
Tunnels (Tunnels #1)
Author: Roderick Gordon
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545381258
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The New York Times Bestseller! The story of an outcast boy, his eccentric dad, and the scary underground world they discover through secret TUNNELS.14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society. "The Colony" has existed unchanged for a century, but it's no benign time capsule of a bygone era--because the Colony is ruled by a cultlike overclass, the Styx. Before long--before he can find his father--Will is their prisoner....
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545381258
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The New York Times Bestseller! The story of an outcast boy, his eccentric dad, and the scary underground world they discover through secret TUNNELS.14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society. "The Colony" has existed unchanged for a century, but it's no benign time capsule of a bygone era--because the Colony is ruled by a cultlike overclass, the Styx. Before long--before he can find his father--Will is their prisoner....
Illustrated World
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Tunnel Construction
Author: Messe München International
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9789054109518
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Each contribution in this volume looks at the tendencies of development in modern tunnel and cavern construction, highlighting innovations of machine technology.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9789054109518
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Each contribution in this volume looks at the tendencies of development in modern tunnel and cavern construction, highlighting innovations of machine technology.