Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Early Cold War

No place symbolized the cold war more than Berlin, and no event illustrates how East-West conflict developed more than the Berlin blockade. The blockade (June 24, 1948-May 12, 1949) was one of the first international crises of the cold war. During the occupation of post-World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway and road access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviets to supply Berlin with food a

Author: Daniel F. Harrington
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 06/24/2012
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 9.15h x 6.41w x 1.41d
ISBN: 9780813136134

About the Author

Daniel F. Harrington is deputy command historian at United States Strategic Command.

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