Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Berlin AirliftCondition: NewEAN: 9781785782404ISBN: 9781785782404Publisher: Icon BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/05/2017Item Height: 240mmItem Length: 162mmAuthor: Barry TurnerLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Relief Operation that Defined the Cold WarISBN-10: 1785782401Description: Acclaimed historian Barry Turner presents a new history ofthe Cold War's defining episode.Berlin, 1948 - a divided city in a divided country in adivided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles insideSoviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin wanted the Allies out; the Allieswere determined to stay, but had only three narrow air corridors linking thecity to the West. Stalin was confident he could crush Berlin's resolve bycutting off food and fuel.In the USA, despite some voices still urging 'Americafirst', it was believed that a rebuilt Germany was the best insurance againstthe spread of communism across Europe.And so over eleven months from June 1948 to May 1949,British and American aircraft carried out the most ambitious airborne reliefoperation ever mounted, flying over 2 million tons of supplies on almost300,000 flights to save a beleaguered Berlin.With new material from American, British and German archivesand original interviews with veterans, Turner paints a fresh, vivid picture theairlift, whose repercussions - the role of the USA as global leader, Germanascendancy, Russian threat - we are still living with today.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Width: 29mmItem Weight: 561gRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Berlin Airlift
Title: The Berlin Airlift
EAN: 9781785782404
ISBN: 9781785782404
Release Date: 10/05/2017
Release Year: 2017
Subtitle: The Relief Operation that Defined the Cold War
ISBN-10: 1785782401
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Title: Berlin Airlift : the Relief Operation That Defined the Cold War
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Icon Books, The Limited
Publication Year: 2017
Topic: Europe / Germany, General, Disasters & Disaster Relief, Public Policy / Economic Policy
Item Height: 1.1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 19.4 Oz
Author: Barry Turner
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
