He subsequently took up a position on the News at Ten, anchoring coverage of monumental occurrences including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, and three Royal weddings. Alastair's career ...

Balloons, tunnels, secret compartments—even homemade aircraft. From 1961 to 1989, desperate East Germans tried everything to break through the Berlin Wall. Some made it. Many didn’t.

Exploring original sites from the Nazi era and the Cold War: the Berlin Wall and Third Reich bicycle tour takes you to places ...

Jay Kinra and Tunnel 29, the famous escape route built under the Berlin Wall. Courtesy/bild via Getty Images ...

After the wall was erected, Joachim Rudolph made a daring escape from East Berlin. Then he went back to save his friends.

After the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, desperate Germans trapped inside East Germany tried many creative ways to escape to the West, often with deadly consequences — the guards shot to kill. But ...

Joachim Rudolph fled East Berlin himself, but wasn't content: He dug a massive tunnel to help free 29 more from the Soviets, including his future wife, a new book reveals. Joachim Rudolph; Getty ...

A group of students teamed with a civil engineer to conceive a 135-meter-long tunnel under the Berlin Wall, helping 29 people to escape. Images from the daring project became world-famous.