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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:

Berkley Pub. Group,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xiv, 624 p., [16] p. of plates ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

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Cherny brings together newly unclassified documents, unpublished letters and diaries, and fresh primary interviews to tell the story of the Berlin Airlift, one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American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

ISBN:

0425227715 (pbk.)
9780425227718 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)268795085

Locations:

KIPA631 -- Bussey Community Library (Bussey)

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)

CVPA586 -- Letts Public Library (Letts)

UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)