The Berlin Airlift
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The Berlin Airlift

The Salvation of a City

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Berlin Airlift

The Salvation of a City

About this book

" Detailed, nuts-and-bolts exploration of the 1948–9 Berlin airlift, the first major crisis of the new Cold War." — Kirkus Reviews
At the end of World War II, the Americans and their allies divided Berlin, the capital of Germany, into four sectors, with the Russians taking one of the sectors. The problem was that the Western (American) sector of Berlin was surrounded by the Russian sector of Germany, which was also divided.
In June of 1948, Joseph Stalin stopped all road and rail traffic coming into and out of the Allied Sector of Berlin. He simultaneously cut off all electricity to the city, leaving only a twenty-mile-wide sector of air corridors and one way to get supplies to desperate, starving people.
The United States, using the only method they could, led Allies to mobilize an unprecedented airlift of thousands of tons of supplies each day. By September 1948, the airlift was transporting food, coal, medical supplies, and other necessities into West Berlin as aid for the residents. At the same time, Russian military threatened to strike down any aircraft caught flying outside of the corridor. Finally, by April of 1949, Russia announced their intent to end the blockade, and in August of the same year, the United States airlift operation was terminated.
With an unparalleled attention to detail, Jon Sutherland and Diane Canwell, relay the intricacies and maneuverings of the Berlin airlift. This amazing true story is set against the backdrop of 1948 Germany, the post-World War II world, and the beginning of the Cold War.

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Information

Publisher
Pelican Publishing
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781589805507
eBook ISBN
9781455600731
Subtopic
Military & Maritime History

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter One: Prelude to the Blockade
  5. Chapter Two: Meagre Beginnings
  6. Chapter Three: Black Friday
  7. Chapter Four: Berliners and Volunteers
  8. Chapter Five: Flying the Corridor
  9. Chapter Six: Airlift Airbases
  10. Chapter Seven: Easter Parade
  11. Chapter Eight: End of the Airlift
  12. Chapter Nine: Political Settlement
  13. Chapter Ten: Legacy of the Airlift
  14. Appendix I: RAF Units used During Operation Plainfare, June 1948 - September 1949
  15. Appendix II: The Airlift in Figures (Figures from British Sources)
  16. Appendix III: Chronology
  17. Appendix IV: Statistics for the First Year of the Airlift (26 June 1948 - 26 June 1949)
  18. Appendix V: Soviet Harassment Incidents during the Airlift Operations
  19. Appendix VI: Documents Regarding the Partitioning of Germany and Berlin
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index