SuitabookThe Berlin Airlift
Michael Burgan
- Reading
- Read together as a history account, pausing to distinguish the immediate supply problem from the book's larger Cold War framing. Check in if the discussion of threatened starvation feels difficult.
- Themes
- The Berlin blockade and airlift: The book describes a blockade that prevented supplies reaching Berlin and the Allies' use of cargo flights to bring them in. The overview presents the airlift as a rescue and as the Allies' first major Cold War victory.
- Worth knowing
- Consider whether that hardship may be upsetting, especially if your reader is sensitive to hunger or deprivation.