How the Allies kept the population of West Berlin alive in the face of a Russian blockade. In the summer of1948, the Russians occupied all of Eastern Europe. Behind Russian lines, the Allied-controlled part of the great city of Berlin stood as the lone Western outpost in a sea of Communist occupa
Cold War Berlin: An Island City (1) The Birth of the Cold War and the Berlin Airlift, 1945-1950
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- Publisher
- Helion
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 98
- Series
- Europe@war 9
- Category
- Library
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