Cold War Berlin: an island city Volume 1 The birth of the Cold War and the Berlin airlift, 1945-1950
At the end of the Second World War, the city of Berlin was located 100 miles (160 km) inside the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany. The Western Allies insisted on keeping part of the city for themselves, and so it was divided into four sectors, mimicking the rest of Germany. Stalin needed to persuad...
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| Zusammenfassung: | At the end of the Second World War, the city of Berlin was located 100 miles (160 km) inside the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany. The Western Allies insisted on keeping part of the city for themselves, and so it was divided into four sectors, mimicking the rest of Germany. Stalin needed to persuade the British, French and Americans to leave so that there would be nothing in the way of him completing the strategic buffer of territory reaching from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic, which Churchill would later christen the ‘Iron Curtain’. Cold War Berlin: An Island City is the story of how Stalin imposed his iron will over eastern Germany, and how he tried to squeeze his former allies out by cutting off their lines of supply and blockading the city. It examines the logistical miracle of the Berlin Airlift, which fed and heated a city of over two million people for almost eleven months. It is a story of alliances forged in the uncertainty of conflict, based on common interests and pragmatic convenience, alliances that would shape the twentieth century but would be betrayed for strategic or political reasons. It is also the tale of how competing ideologies came face to face in the city of Berlin and the new 'Cold War' that would come to dominate the second half of the 20th century was created out of the embers of the Second World War. The book is richly illustrated with photos, numerous maps and colour profiles and is the first in a mini-series by this author for Helion’s Europe@War series on Cold War Berlin. |
| Beschreibung: | 88 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
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Helion Company Limited Unit 8 Amherst Business Centre Budbrooke Road Warwick CV34 5WE England Tel. 01926 499 619 Email: info@helion.co.uk Website: www.helion.co.uk Twitter: @helionbooks Visit our blog http://blog.helion.co.uk/ Text © Andrew Long 2021 Photographs © as individually credited Colour profiles © Luca Canossa,Tom Cooper, Anderson Subtil, and Goran Sudar 2021 Maps © George Anderson and Anderson Subtil 2021 Designed typeset by Farr out Publications, Wokingham, Berkshire Cover design Paul Hewitt, Battlefield Design (www.battlefield-design.co.uk) Cover artwork The front cover shows an Avrò York and is detailed in the colour section. The rear cover artwork shows the USAF Douglas C-47 Skytrain 293087 'Camel Caravan to Berlin'. This aircraft was painted specially for the special delivery of Clarence the Camel, a present to the children of West Berlin from the 86th Fighter Group at Neubiberg Air Force Base, near Munich in a USAF public relations initiative. (Artwork by Goran Sudar) CONTENTS Acknowledgements Abbreviations Timeline Introduction 1 2 3 4 Roots of the Cold War Berlin: Frontline City The Grip Tightens An Island City: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift 2 2 3 6 6 14 28 41 Conclusion 74 Appendices 1 The Airlift in Numbers 2 Order of Battle 75 76 Selected Bibliography/Further Reading Notes About the Author 82 83 88 Every reasonable effort has been made to trace copyright holders and to obtain their permission for the use of copyright material. The author and publisher apologise for any errors or omissions in this work, and would be grateful if notified of any
corrections that should be incorporated in future reprints or editions of this book. ISBN 978-1-914059-03-2 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the express written consent of Helion Company Limited. We always welcome receiving book proposals from prospective authors. Note: In order to simplify the use of this book, all names, locations and geographic designations are as provided in The Times World Atlas, or other traditionally accepted major sources of reference, as of the time of described events. |
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Helion Company Limited Unit 8 Amherst Business Centre Budbrooke Road Warwick CV34 5WE England Tel. 01926 499 619 Email: info@helion.co.uk Website: www.helion.co.uk Twitter: @helionbooks Visit our blog http://blog.helion.co.uk/ Text © Andrew Long 2021 Photographs © as individually credited Colour profiles © Luca Canossa,Tom Cooper, Anderson Subtil, and Goran Sudar 2021 Maps © George Anderson and Anderson Subtil 2021 Designed typeset by Farr out Publications, Wokingham, Berkshire Cover design Paul Hewitt, Battlefield Design (www.battlefield-design.co.uk) Cover artwork The front cover shows an Avrò York and is detailed in the colour section. The rear cover artwork shows the USAF Douglas C-47 Skytrain 293087 'Camel Caravan to Berlin'. This aircraft was painted specially for the special delivery of Clarence the Camel, a present to the children of West Berlin from the 86th Fighter Group at Neubiberg Air Force Base, near Munich in a USAF public relations initiative. (Artwork by Goran Sudar) CONTENTS Acknowledgements Abbreviations Timeline Introduction 1 2 3 4 Roots of the Cold War Berlin: Frontline City The Grip Tightens An Island City: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift 2 2 3 6 6 14 28 41 Conclusion 74 Appendices 1 The Airlift in Numbers 2 Order of Battle 75 76 Selected Bibliography/Further Reading Notes About the Author 82 83 88 Every reasonable effort has been made to trace copyright holders and to obtain their permission for the use of copyright material. The author and publisher apologise for any errors or omissions in this work, and would be grateful if notified of any
corrections that should be incorporated in future reprints or editions of this book. ISBN 978-1-914059-03-2 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the express written consent of Helion Company Limited. We always welcome receiving book proposals from prospective authors. Note: In order to simplify the use of this book, all names, locations and geographic designations are as provided in The Times World Atlas, or other traditionally accepted major sources of reference, as of the time of described events. |
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