The Berlin Airlift and the Making of the Cold War: Volume 173 Schuessler John M.
The Berlin Airlift and the Making of the Cold War: Volume 173 Schuessler John M. For eleven months that spanned 1948 and 1949, cargo aircraft from the air forces of the western Allies carried out one…
Specifikacia The Berlin Airlift and the Making of the Cold War: Volume 173 Schuessler John M.
The Berlin Airlift and the Making of the Cold War: Volume 173 Schuessler John M.
For eleven months that spanned 1948 and 1949, cargo aircraft from the air forces of the western Allies carried out one of the most extraordinary feats of peacetime military power projection in history: ferrying supplies to the city of Berlin, then under Soviet blockade. The city became a symbol of the escalating division of Europe into competing blocs in a new Cold War order. By spring 1949, the Berlin Airlift, initially considered unlikely to succeed, had convinced the Soviets that their efforts to force a solution to Berlin's future were badly miscalculated.
Here, scholars and This largely improvised military action had exerted unforeseen influence on the post-World War II world.The Berlin Airlift and the Making of the Cold War brings together historians and political scientists to explore the origins, course, and impacts of the Berlin Airlift after seventy years.