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76 Feet Under: The Night They Dug Toward the Stars
On a freezing night in March 1944, 76 men squeeze one by one into a hole in the ground — and for a few extraordinary hours, the Third Reich has no idea. The plan has taken a year to execute, used 600 bed boards, 4,000 bed slats, and the ingenuity of hundreds of prisoners who turned a POW camp into an engineering marvel. Step inside the tunnels called Tom, Dick, and Harry — and discover the story the statistics alone can never tell.
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