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The Airlift

Name: The Airlift
ISBN: 9781803998237

Victories, Myths, and the Berlin Blockade

Joseph Pearson,

English
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eBook - ePub

The Airlift

Victories, Myths, and the Berlin Blockade

Joseph Pearson,

About this book

'A thrilling portrait of the Berlin Airlift as seen through the eyes of those who lived through it ' - J.M. Tyree, editor of Film Quarterly

In this captivating account of the Berlin Airlift, Joseph Pearson tells the forgotten story of a group of airmen who, in 1948–49, just years after bombing Berlin in the Second World War, returned to the skies. This time they risked their lives to drop chocolate, not bombs. Meanwhile, German citizens looked upwards not with dread and hatred but with hope and admiration.

The Airlift is not your standard military history. Drawing on first-hand interviews and untapped sources from both German and Anglo-American archives, Pearson interweaves personal tales into an extraordinary story: an American pilot crashing in Soviet territory; a Jewish photographer struggling to reconcile with the Germans; the 17,000 women who built Tegel Airport; Cambridge University actors performing in the ruins for British intelligence; Hollywood star Montgomery Clift filming at Tempelhof Airport; and a Berlin girl trying to outrun the boys reaching for chocolate.

Through this deeply human lens, Pearson offers crucial historical insight into how lasting new battlelines were formed. The Berlin Airlift didn't just supply a city; it wrote the playbook of the Cold War and continues to influence Western thinking and diplomacy with Russia to this day.

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