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The Berlin Airlift - The World's Largest Ever Air Supply Operation (Paperback)
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The Berlin Airlift - The World's Largest Ever Air Supply Operation (Paperback)
Series: Images of Aviation
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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.
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Imprint: |
Air World
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Images of Aviation |
Release date: |
May 2019 |
Authors: |
John Grehan
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Dimensions: |
246 x 189 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
144 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5267-5826-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Warfare & defence >
Air forces & warfare
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LSN: |
1-5267-5826-1 |
Barcode: |
9781526758262 |
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