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    «The Berlin Airlift» by Barry Turner

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    «The Berlin Airlift» by Barry Turner

    «The Berlin Airlift» by Barry Turner
    English | EPUB | 2.6 MB


    Acclaimed historian Barry Turner presents a new history of the Cold War's defining episode.

    Berlin, 1948 — a divided city in a divided country in a
    divided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles inside
    Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin wanted the Allies out; the Allies
    were determined to stay, but had only three narrow air corridors linking the city to the West. Stalin was confident he could crush Berlin’s resolve by cutting off food and fuel.

    In the USA, despite some voices still urging ‘America
    first’, it was believed that a rebuilt Germany was the best insurance against
    the 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 relief
    operation ever mounted, flying over 2 million tons of supplies on almost
    300,000 flights to save a beleaguered Berlin.



    With new material from American, British and German archives
    and original interviews with veterans, Turner paints a fresh, vivid picture the airlift, whose repercussions — the role of the USA as global leader, German
    ascendancy, Russian threat — we are still living with today.