Joseph Pearson The Airlift review, recensie en informatie boek over overwinningen, mythen en de blokkade van Berlijn in 1948 en 1949. Op 23 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press, The Airlift, Victories, Myths, and the Berlin Blockade. Het boek is geschreven door de in Canada geboren historicus Joseph Pearson. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Joseph Pearson The Airlift review en recensie
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The Airlift
Victories, Myths, and the Berlin Blockade
- Auteur: Joseph Pearson (Canada)
- Soort boek: Berlijn boek, geschiedenisboek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: The History Press
- Verschijnt: 23 oktober 2025
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: £ 22,00 / £ 12,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek over de blokkade van Berlijn in 1948 en 1949
Berlin, 1948-9. Airmen who had spent the Second World War dropping bombs on the city now risked their lives dropping chocolate bars; German citizens looked to the skies not with dread and hatred, but with hope and admiration. Through a deeply human lens, this fascinating new book investigates how lasting new battlelines were formed in the war-torn city.
This is not a standard military history; The Airlift uses extensive archives and interviews to interweave everyday characters’ tales into an extraordinary story. They include an American pilot crashing in Soviet territory, a Jewish photographer struggling to reconcile with the Germans, the 17,000 women who built Tegel Airport, Cambridge University actors performing in the ruins for British intelligence, Hollywood star Montgomery Clift filming at Tempelhof airport, and a Berlin girl trying to outrun the boys reaching for chocolate.
By uncovering untapped sources in both German and Anglo-American archives, Dr Pearson gives a unique and textured portrait of a city during the Cold War’s first major conflict through the lives of real individuals. The Berlin Airlift wrote the playbook of the Cold War, and it still influences Western thinking and diplomacy with Russia to this day.
Joseph Pearson was born in Canada, studied at Middlebury College in Vermont and has a doctorate in Modern History from the University of Cambridge. He taught at Columbia University and currently lectures at the Barenboim-Said Akademie and New York University in Berlin. He is the author of My Grandfather’s Knife (The History Press) and Berlin (Reaktion Books), a portrait of the city in which he now lives and works.