The Berlin Airlift: The World's Largest Ever Air Supply Operation

by John Grehan

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526758261
• ISBN13: 9781526758262
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Air World
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.6"