With excellent details encompassing the British portion of the airlift Berlin Blockade also highly details the American side. The book has beautiful colour graphics of the aircraft, maps and unit insignia's plus B&W photographs not seen in previous American publications.

This book contains one of the best detailed descriptions of the black market and the value of cigarettes and how the Allies provided them in the tens of thousands.

This a most excellent book about the RAF effort.

Berlin Airlift Veterans Association

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Military Heritage, May 2018

Using many maps and vintage pictures, the author reports in depth the hard time the Allies had standing their ground to face their former partner, Staline who denied his previous Yalta position. Intimidations, brutal provocations, propaganda, and rescue operations (including the famous Berlin airlift), this is the first hot spot of the Cold War that is being told here in a new World order.

Air Fan, October/November 2017 - reviewed by Sam Pretat

This provides a useful introduction to the airlift that thwarted Soviet plans.

Military History Monthly, November 2017

Raised in Rhodesia, Gerry van Tonder in the late 1990s moved to Britain where he has written numerous military and historical works. Malayan Emergency is a second title he has in this Cold War series. His eminently readable account of the Berlin ‘moves and counter moves’ is punctuated by newspaper reports and letters of the day, topical photographs, excellent maps and compendium of the aircraft used and Allied military insignia.

RUSI Victoria

The visual section of the work is very complete, 100 photographs in black and white, 1 in colour and 8 colour plates in which we find maps, a collection of badges and various profiles of airplanes.

A hot and hot topic about the end of the Cold War.

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José Manuél Rico Cortés (Mister JM) - Miniaturas JM

The publisher has built a solid reputation by releasing a number of series of military history books with a high photographic content. This series promises to become as popular as the well-established Images of War series and similarly makes use of rare photographs, with full colour sketches and drawings to augment the photographs. The Cold War effectively began in 1945, but the Western Allies initially responded passively to Soviet expansion. The Berlin Blockade marked a new stage in the war and the Allies struck back brilliantly – Strongly Recommended.

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