Mitchell, through impeccable research, uncovers many “dramatic flights” from East Germany including perhaps the most famous tunnel: NBC’s tunnel emanating from the cellar of a West Berlin swizzle stick factory. Other attempts to navigate the wall to freedom included the tunnel at Keifholz Strasse which was a crude tunnel built originally by cyclist Henry Siedel (it would be his second tunnel). A particularly interesting tale from other escapes, was a group of 14 East Berliners who chartered a boat tour of the Landwehr canal, got the Capitan and engineer drunk, and piloted the boot into West Berlin under a barrage of East Berlin gun
