To Save a City: The Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949

The Berlin Crisis of 1948 had its origins in the dark mind of Joseph Stalin. Plans to interfere with Western access to Berlin were already hatched andharassment had begun by March 19, 1948, when the dictator met with German leaders of the Soviet-controlled Party of Socialist German Unity (SED).During the subsequent discussion, German communist leader Wilhelm Pieck warned that the elections scheduled for Berlin in October threatened a disaster for the SED. But, he argued, that humiliation could be prevented if, somehow, the Western powers could be removed from the city

Author: U. S. Air Force, Office of Air Force History
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 03/02/2015
Pages: 138
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781508684565
ISBN10: 1508684561
BISAC Categories:
- History | Military | Aviation

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