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Greg Mitchell is a film director and the author of dozen non-fiction books. His latest book, published in May 2023 is "Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried," is the companion to his PBS film of the same name. His previous book was the award-winning "The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood--and America--Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," published in 2020. Before that was his 2016 bestseller "The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill" (Crown). His other books include: "Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas" (a New York Times Notable Book); "The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor and the Birth of Media Politics" (winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize); "So Wrong for So Long," on Iraq and the media; and two books with Robert Jay Lifton, "Hiroshima in America" and "Who Owns Death?" Mitchell won numerous national awards as the editor of Editor & Publisher from 2001 to 2009. He began his magazine career as Senior Editor of the legendary Crawdaddy for most of the 1970s and helped create the first major article about Bruce Springsteen (and later was presented with a gold record for "Born to Run"). He co-produced the recent film, "Following the Ninth," about the cultural and political impact of Beethoven's Ninth symphony around the world in recent years, and has served as adviser to other acclaimed documentaries. His articles have appeared in dozens of national magazines and leading newspapers such as The New York Times and Washington Post. He lives in the New York City area.
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    • The Tunnels

    • The True Story of Tunnel 29 and the Daring Escapes Under the Berlin Wall
    • By: Greg Mitchell
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-2016
    • Language: English
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