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Sweet victory : how the Berlin airlift divided East and West / Joseph Pearson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pearson, Joseph (Historian), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Air pilots, Military--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Air pilots, Military.
- Air pilots, Military--United States--History--20th century.
- Cold War.
- Berlin (Germany)--History--Blockade, 1948-1949.
- Berlin (Germany).
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- Physical Description:
- 288 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2025.
- Summary:
- After Hitler's defeat in World War II, Europe's ruins were divided between East and West. The center of the struggle for influence was Berlin, split between the victorious Allied powers: the Soviets on one side and the Anglo-American and French forces on the other. Berlin was closer to the Soviet border than Paris, a strategic springboard for Stalin to rule Central Europe. In June of 1948, three years after the war, Stalin made his move to take complete control of the city. Laying siege, he blocked off supplies and transport to the Western sectors. The stakes could not have been higher: the Russian leader risked nuclear conflict. A false move--even one American plane shot down by Russian fighters--could mean the atomic drop that American generals were contemplating. Was Berlin worth this enormous risk, and how would the West react?
- Contents:
- Author's note
- Introduction
- Enemy backstories. Roar
- The unforgivable
- Enemy of my enemy
- The revolutionary
- Winter-Summer 1948. The breakdown
- Crisis
- Champagne
- Summer-Autumn 1948. Culture war
- Through the Iron Curtain
- Students in the ruins
- Sweet victories
- Winter-Spring 1948-49. In the French Quarter
- New Year
- Wolves in sheep's clothing
- The Hollywood version
- After 1949
- XVII: Reflections
- Timeline
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Included bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781639368587
- 1639368582
- OCLC:
- 1438665764
- Publisher Number:
- 90103253324
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