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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Haydock, Michael D. City under siege. Washington : Brassey's, ©1999 (OCoLC)606985136 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael D Haydock |
ISBN: | 1574881426 9781574881424 |
OCLC Number: | 38249704 |
Description: | xiv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Prologue: Berlin, 1945 -- 1. The Face of Defeat -- 2. "It's Got to Work" -- 3. Inter-Allied "Cooperation" -- 4. Spoils of Victory and Victory Spoils -- 5. Meeting at Potsdam -- 6. The Bear Shows Its Claws -- 7. "I'm Tired of Babying the Soviets" -- 8. A Long Telegram -- 9. The Iron Curtain -- 10. Cops and Spooks -- 11. The Dead of Winter -- 12. Avoiding Trivia -- 13. From Rift to Rupture -- 14. "The Control Council No Longer Exists" -- 15. Tightening the Noose -- 16. The Color of Money -- 17. "Two Hours Left to Live" -- 18. "We Stay in Berlin -- Period" -- 19. LeMay Coal and Feed Company -- 20. Teething Problems -- 21. Full Wartime Footing -- 22. Willy the Whip -- 23. Black Friday -- 24. "Gentlemen, I Have a New Plan." |
Responsibility: | Michael D. Haydock. |
Abstract:
"At the close of World War II, the Soviet Union controlled all of eastern Germany except the Allied sectors of Berlin. In June 1948, Soviet authorities halted the West's land access to the city, apparently dooming the inhabitants of its Western sectors to starvation. Allied planes - mostly American but some British - immediately began a massive supply airlift that lasted fifteen months. Flying 276,926 dangerous missions, often in bad weather, and bringing in 2.3 million tons of food and coal, the Berlin Airlift cost the lives of 75 U.S. and British airmen but saved the besieged enclave."
"Haydock's sources include recently declassified documents and previously unpublished diaries of participants. In City Under Siege, he has united the political, military, and personal aspects of the story."--Jacket.
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- Berlin (Germany) -- History -- Blockade, 1948-1949.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
- Berlin (Allemagne) -- Histoire -- 1948-1949 (Blocus)
- États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- 1945-1953.
- États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- URSS.
- URSS -- Relations extérieures -- États-Unis.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Germany -- Berlin.
- Soviet Union.
- United States.
- Berliner Blockade
- Luftbrücke
- Blokkade.
- Luchtvervoer.
- Bevoorrading.
- Geallieerden.
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