The Berlin Airlift

The Relief Operation That Defined the Cold War

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<p>Acclaimed historian Barry Turner presents a new history of<br>the Cold War's defining episode.</p><p>Berlin, 1948 - a divided city in a divided country in a<br>divided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles inside<br>Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin wanted the Allies out; the Allies<br>were determined to stay, but had only three narrow air corridors linking the<br>city to the West. Stalin was confident he could crush Berlin's resolve by<br>cutting off food and fuel.</p><p>In the USA, despite some voices still urging 'America<br>first', it was believed that a rebuilt Germany was the best insurance against<br>the spread of communism across Europe.</p><p>And so over eleven months from June 1948 to May 1949,<br>British and American aircraft carried out the most ambitious airborne relief<br>operation ever mounted, flying over 2 million tons of supplies on almost<br>300,000 flights to save a beleaguered Berlin.</p><br><p>With new material from American, British and German archives<br>and original interviews with veterans, Turner paints a fresh, vivid picture the<br>airlift, whose repercussions - the role of the USA as global leader, German<br>ascendancy, Russian threat - we are still living with today.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781785782404

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

241 x 156 x 32 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Verlag / Hersteller

Amberley Publishing