{"product_id":"airlift-1","title":"Airlift","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A thrilling portrait of the Berlin Airlift as seen through the eyes of those who lived through it ’\u003c\/strong\u003e - J.M. Tyree, editor of \u003cem\u003eFilm Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this captivating account of the Berlin Airlift, Joseph Pearson tells the forgotten story of a group of airmen who, in 1948–49, just years after bombing Berlin in the Second World War, returned to the skies.\u003c\/strong\u003e This time they risked their lives to drop chocolate, not bombs. Meanwhile, German citizens looked upwards not with dread and hatred but with hope and admiration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Airlift\u003c\/em\u003e is not your standard military history. Drawing on first-hand interviews and untapped sources from both German and Anglo-American archives, Pearson interweaves personal tales into an extraordinary story: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough this deeply human lens, Pearson offers crucial historical insight into how lasting new battlelines were formed. The Berlin Airlift didn’t just supply a city; it wrote the playbook of the Cold War and continues to influence Western thinking and diplomacy with Russia to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The History Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54983376372056,"sku":"9781803998220","price":27.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781803998220_cb259297-ba5a-4f87-b566-032644c21573.jpg?v=1781011821","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/airlift-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}