Berlin Airlift: World's Largest Ever Air Supply Operation by John Grehan SC

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Like New: A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is ...
ISBN
9781526758262
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Pen & Sword Books The Limited
ISBN-10
1526758261
ISBN-13
9781526758262
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038378107

Product Key Features

Book Title
Berlin Airlift : the World's Largest Ever Air Supply Operation
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Germany, Modern / 20th Century, Military / Aviation
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Author
John Grehan
Book Series
Images of Aviation Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
7.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
943.15540874
Synopsis
The fate of the free world hung in the balance. Stalin's Soviet Union sought to drive the Western democracies from Germany to continue the communist advance across Europe. The first step in Stalin's scheme was to bring Berlin under Soviet control. Berlin was situated deep inside the Soviet-occupied region of the country, but the German capital had been divided into two halves, one of which was occupied by the Soviet Union, the other, in separate sectors, by Britain, France and the USA. Stalin decided to make the Allied hold on West Berlin untenable by shutting down all the overland routes used to keep the city supplied.The choice faced by the Allies was a stark one - let Berlin fall, or risk war with the Soviets by breaking the Soviet stranglehold. In a remarkably visionary move, the Allies decided that they could keep Berlin supplied by flying over the Soviet blockade, thus avoiding armed conflict with the USSR.On 26 June 1948, the Berlin Airlift began. Throughout the following thirteen months, more than 266,600 flights were undertaken by the men and aircraft from the US, France, Britain and across the Commonwealth, which delivered in excess of 2,223,000 tons of food, fuel and supplies in the greatest airlift in history.The air-bridge eventually became so effective that more supplies were delivered to Berlin than had previously been shipped overland and Stalin saw that his bid to seize control of the German capital could never succeed. At one minute after midnight on 12 May 1949, the Soviet blockade was lifted, and the Soviet advance into Western Europe was brought to a shuddering halt., The fate of the free world hung in the balance. Stalin's Soviet Union sought to drive the Western democracies from Germany to continue the communist advance across Europe.
LC Classification Number
DD881

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