The Blockade Breakers : The Berlin Airlift

The Blockade Breakers : The Berlin Airlift

Helena P Schrader

Språken
FörlagThe History Press
ISBN9780752468037

On 24 June 1948 the Soviet Union abruptly closed all land and water access to the Western Sectors of Berlin. Over 2 million civilians, dependent on the surrounding territory and the West for food, fuel, and other basic goods, were suddenly cut off from all necessities of life. The Western Allies had