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• ISBN13: 9780425227718
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

• ISBN13: 9781416541196
• Notes:

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had ordered a blockade of the city, isolating the people of West Berlin, using hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers to close off all land and water access to the city. He was gambling that he could drive out the small detachments of American, British, and French occupation troops, because their only option was to stay and watch Berliners starve—or retaliate by starting World War III. The situation was impossible, Truman was told by his national security advisers, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His answer: "We stay in Berlin. Period." That was when the phones started ringing and local police began banging on doors to deliver telegrams to the vets.

Drawing on service records and hundreds of interviews in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, Reeves tells the stories of these civilian airmen, the successors to Stephen Ambrose’s "Citizen Soldiers," ordinary Americans again called to extraordinary tasks. They did the impossible, living in barns and muddy tents, flying over Soviet-occupied territory day and night, trying to stay awake, making it up as they went along and ignoring Russian fighters and occasional anti-aircraft fire trying to drive them to hostile ground.

The Berlin Airlift changed the world. It ended when Stalin backed down and lifted the blockade, but only after the bravery and sense of duty of those young heroes had bought the Allies enough time to create a new West Germany and sign the mutual defense agreement that created NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

And then they went home again. Some of them forgot where they had parked their cars after they got the call.

• ISBN13: 9781589805507
• Notes:

This history of the Berlin airlift presents the inspiring story that marked the climax of the first Cold War crisis. The United States and its Allies mobilized an airlift of tons of supplies each day that helped residents of Berlin survive a 11-month siege of their city. Precise facts regarding everything from tonnage to unit deployment support an in-depth analysis of the logistics of the endeavor. Included is a list of RAF units involved, a chronology, and documents detailing the partition of Berlin and Germany. Framed within the transition from World War II to the Cold War, Berlin Airlift explores how this massive movement of supplies transformed the world of aviation.

--The personal perspectives and sacrifices endured by those who contributed to the airlift’s success from the ground up;

--Stalin’s most humiliating defeat and events that launched the Cold War;

--The Soviet blockade and Berlin airlift from a new historical perspective;

--How the Berlin airlift pioneered tactics vital to U.S. airlift preparedness today;

• ISBN13: 9780756534868
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.