Verlag: Da Capo Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0738201499 ISBN 13: 9780738201498
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Verlag: Da Capo Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0738201499 ISBN 13: 9780738201498
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Verlag: Da Capo Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0738201499 ISBN 13: 9780738201498
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Verlag: Perseus Books, MA, 1999
ISBN 10: 0738201499 ISBN 13: 9780738201498
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Verlag: Da Capo Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0738201499 ISBN 13: 9780738201498
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Zustand: very good. Reading: Perseus Books, 1998. Paperback. vi. 394 pp. Index. - }In June 1948, Soviet authorities in Germany announced a land blockade of the American, British, and French sectors of Berlin. Isolated more than one hundred miles within Soviet-occupied territory, western Berlin was in danger of running out of coal, food, and the courage to stand up to Joseph Stalin.As Berlin in the Balance recounts, this crisis was a turning-point for U.S. policy. Just three years earlier, the Soviet Union had been an ally and Berlin the target of American bombers. In 1946 Winston Churchill had ignited protests by calling for an Anglo-American alliance against the USSR. The Berlin blockade made Churchills iron curtain through Europe an inescapable reality.Led by Harry S. Truman, the Western Allies refused to back away from Berlin. Instead, they took to the air, packing passenger planes with coal, potatoes, flour, and other necessities. Not even the commanders of the year-old U. S. Air Force believed this fleet could supply western Berlin for long. Its main airport was squeezed among apartment buildings. Autumn would bring blinding fogs. And nobody had ever tried to supply a city of millions by air. Berlin in the Balance tells the full, gripping story of this critical conflicthow it developed and how it played out. Noted historian Thomas Parrish shows us the crisis through the eyes of Truman, Stalin, and other leaders. We hear Berliners cheer the arrival of each raisin bomber; the planes roar was assurance that the democratic powers had not abandoned them. Through sources made available only after the fall of the USSR, we learn how Soviet leaders planned their strategy to drive out the West, what they feared, and what they hoped to achieve. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780738201498. Keywords : HISTORY, ** doos markt.