BLOCKADE: BERLIN AND THE COLD WAR (Military Book Society Edition)

Edité par The Military Book Society, London, 1973

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Military Book Society Edition (the book was first published by Hamish Hamilton). Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs and five text-maps. Jacket design by Ken Reilly. ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine, with a previous owner's contemporaneous name and date in soft pencil to the top of the front free endpaper (could easily be erased if so wished). No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper. The bottom corner of the back flap has been clipped (this would have shown the Military Book Society edition). Creasing to the top edge of the back panel adjoining the outer corner. Slight fading to the spine of the dustwrapper. Front panel bright. ***224mm x 144mm. 278 pages including appendices, select bibliography and index at the back of the book. ***'Since 1945 Berlin has been the diplomatic cockpit of Europe; the least provocation in that city has repeatedly led to dangerous international tension, just as confrontation elsewhere between East and West has invariably had immediate and acute effect on Berlin's morale. ***In this authoritative account Eric Morris relates Berlin's disturbed post-war history to the wider background of Europe's inexorable division into opposing armed camps. In the last days of World War Two, ill-considered concessions by the West led to a partition of occupied Germany grossly in Russia's favour; the price of this error was years of violent political wrangling in Berlin, culminating in the Blockade of 1948. The West responded to this with that miracle of logistics, the Berlin Airlift, here described in great detail; in eleven months Allied aircraft made two hundred thousand flights into the cramped airfields of West Berlin, carrying everything needed to keep a modern city alive - food, clothing, machinery, raw materials, even coal. ***Berlin was temporarily saved, but the schism of Europe was hardening. Soviet domination of Eastern Europe was consolidated by her creation of an east German state, with East Berlin as capital, and the signing of the Warsaw Pact. For their part, the Western powers created NATO. ***Matters once again came to a head in 1961 with the building of the Berlin Wall. Since then, international tension has been sustained by the Cuban crisis and Vietnam, whilst both sides have had difficulty in keeping their house in order; Warsaw Pact forces felt obliged to invade Czechoslovakia in 1968, and West European solidarity was eroded by France's expulsion of NATO forces and Britain's repeated rejection by the EEC.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the Military Book Society edition, complete in its original dustwrapper, in very nice bright condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

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Titre
BLOCKADE: BERLIN AND THE COLD WAR (Military Book Society Edition)
Auteur
Eric Morris
Éditeur
The Military Book Society, London
Année de publication
1973
État de l'article
Near Fine
Jaquette
Near Fine
Reliure
Hardcover
Illustrateur
Ken Reilly (Jacket design)
Édition
Military Book Society Edition
Impression
First Impression
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