{"product_id":"the-berlin-airlift","title":"The Berlin Airlift","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed historian Barry Turner presents a new history ofthe Cold War's defining episode.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerlin, 1948 - a divided city in a divided country in adivided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles insideSoviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin wanted the Allies out; the Allieswere determined to stay, but had only three narrow air corridors linking thecity to the West. Stalin was confident he could crush Berlin's resolve bycutting off food and fuel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the USA, despite some voices still urging 'Americafirst', it was believed that a rebuilt Germany was the best insurance againstthe spread of communism across Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so over eleven months from June 1948 to May 1949,British and American aircraft carried out the most ambitious airborne reliefoperation ever mounted, flying over 2 million tons of supplies on almost300,000 flights to save a beleaguered Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith new material from American, British and German archivesand original interviews with veterans, Turner paints a fresh, vivid picture theairlift, whose repercussions - the role of the USA as global leader, Germanascendancy, Russian threat - we are still living with today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53939368001874,"sku":"9781785782404","price":22.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_5d1fbc92-759a-4b39-bb98-4f877f7e923e.jpg?v=1783351753","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/the-berlin-airlift","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}