The History of the Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel has been one of history's most protracted, and at times acrimonious, construction projects. From the paranoia of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when there was a fear that foreign hordes would rush through the tunnel and invade Britain, to the lethargic attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it's a miracle that this great feat of engineering was ever constructed at all. Nicholas Faith has delved into the archives and researched the fascinating truth about this project that took so long to authorise and construct. The author has found material in the archives, both in Britain and abroad, that has not been previously published or seen, outside a closed group of people.