Cold War Berlin: An Island City Vol. 1 The Birth of the Cold War...

Andrew Long
Cold War Berlin: An Island City Vol. 1 - The Birth of the Cold War and the Berlin Airlift, 1945-1950
96 strani, mehka vezava, 110 čb fotografij, 16 barvnih profilov, 8 zemljevidov.

Kratek opis v angleškem jeziku:
At the end of the Second World War, the city of Berlin was located 100 miles (160 km) inside the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany. The Western Allies insisted on keeping part of the city for themselves, and so it was divided into four sectors, mimicking the rest of Germany. Stalin needed to persuade the British, French and Americans to leave so that there would be nothing in the way of him completing the strategic buffer of territory reaching from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic, which Churchill would later christen the ‘Iron Curtain’.
Cold War Berlin: An Island City is the story of how Stalin imposed his iron will over eastern Germany, and how he tried to squeeze his former allies out by cutting off their lines of supply and blockading the city. It examines the logistical miracle of the Berlin Airlift, which fed and heated a city of over two million people for almost eleven months. It is a story of alliances forged in the uncertainty of conflict, based on common interests and pragmatic convenience, alliances that would shape the twentieth century but would be betrayed for strategic or political reasons. It is also the tale of how competing ideologies came face to face in the city of Berlin and the new 'Cold War' that would come to dominate the second half of the 20th century was created out of the embers of the Second World War.
The book is richly illustrated with photos, numerous maps and colour profiles and is the first in a mini-series by this author for Helion’s Europe@War series on Cold War Berlin.

"The author has created a fascinating compendium of facts, figures and images, including specially commissioned maps and illustrations of aircraft types. In doing so, his slim A4-format paperback has breathed a new life into a topic that has traditionally been portrayed as a monochrome newsreel drama." The Guards Magazine, No 201

"It was not an easy task and many things needed to be learned. All of this is covered in this superlative book on the subject. It has excellent photos, the usual great profiles and some equally useful charts and tables. It makes for what is the best book on the subject I have read and I know that you will find it as well done and interesting as did I. Most highly recommended." ModellingMadness.com

"The strategic, operational and tactical levels are all covered in this book in rich and colourful detail. I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the Berlin Airlift, Cold War operations, and fans of the Helion Europe at War series. If this is any indication of how volume two will look, then this is a series crying out to be read and added to your bookshelves." Aviation Enthusiast Book Club

"A well-written account of the deteriorating post-war relations between the West and USSR that led to a Soviet power grab for Berlin." The Historical Miniatures Gaming Society

"This concise work is ideally suited for anyone at all interested in one of the West's earliest Cold War victories." Air Power History

"Abundant high-quality black and white photographs depict Cold War-era vehicles, city scenes and support aircraft—all of which are excellent recourses for diorama builders and for models." IPMS/USA

"...will be of great interest to modelers planning to build any of the aircraft types shown and to aviation historians..." AMPS Indianapolis

"Adversaries on both sides of the virtually impenetrable Iron Curtain are ushered in accompanied by bold frontpage headlines forged themselves." Argunners

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