Format:
Book
Author:
Cherny, Andrei.
Title:
The candy bombers : the untold story of the Berlin Airlift and America's finest hour / Andrei Cherny.
Edition:
Berkley Caliber trade paperback ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Berkley Pub. Group, 2009.
Description:
xiv, 624 p., [16] p. of plates ; 24 cm.
Summary:
Cherny brings together newly unclassified documents, unpublished letters and diaries, and fresh primary interviews to tell the story of the Berlin Airlift, one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history
Subjects:
Berlin (Germany) -- History -- Blockade, 1948-1949.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Germany.
Germany -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [595]-603) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: June 24, 1948 -- The banks: Spring 1945. The end ; Tombstones ; Visions ; Flight ; The descent -- The bend: Spring 1948. Chasm ; March -- The bridge: 1948-1949. June ; July ; August ; September ; October ; November ; December ; Spring again -- Afterword: Coming home -- Epilogue: October 1990.
ISBN:
9780425227718 (pbk.)
0425227715 (pbk.)
Other Number:
268795085
System Availability:
5
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
732402
Call Number:
943/.1550874
Course Reserves:
0
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5