The Berlin Airlift and the Making of the Cold War: Volume 173

For eleven months that spanned 1948 and 1949, cargo aircraft from the air forces of the western Allies carried out one of the most extraordinary feats of peacetime military power projection in history: ferrying supplies to the city of Berlin, then under Soviet blockade. By spring 1949, the Berlin Airlift, initially considered unlikely to succeed, had convinced the Soviets that their efforts to force a solution to Berlin's future were badly miscalculated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1648430600
• ISBN13: 9781648430602
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"