Cold War Berlin: An Island City: Volume 1: The Birth of the Cold War, the Communist Take-Over and the Berlin Airlift, 1945-1949

by Andrew Long and Andrew Long

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1914059034
• ISBN13: 9781914059032
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.1" x 11.6"