The Berlin Airlift

“ Detailed, nuts-and-bolts exploration of the 1948–9 Berlin airlift, the first major crisis of the new Cold War.” — Kirkus Reviews At the end of World War II, the Americans and their allies divided Berlin, the capital of Germany, into four sectors, with the Russians taking one of the sectors. The problem was that the Western (American) sector of Berlin was surrounded by the Russian sector of Germany, which was also divided. In June of 1948, Joseph Stalin stopped all road and rail traffic coming