The Airlift
victories, myths, and the berlin blockade
$63.36
- Hardcover
- Release Date
23 October 2025
Summary
The Airlift: Hope and Chocolate in the Skies of Berlin
A fresh and unique take on the Berlin Airlift - a beautifully written and textured portrait of a city under siege.
This fascinating new book tells the forgotten story of a group of airmen who had spent WW2 dropping bombs on Berlin, who risked their lives in 1948-9 instead dropping chocolate bars from the sky, and how a group of German citizens looked to the skies not with dread and hatred but with hope and admiration. Th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781803998220 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1803998229 |
| Author: | Joseph Pearson |
| Publisher: | The History Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | The History Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Release Date: | 23 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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Critics Review
‘Joseph Pearson’s The Airlift is a thrilling portrait of the Berlin Airlift as seen through the eyes of those who lived through it, from pilots to photographers and ordinary citizens. Pearson weaves together his meticulous new research and his in-depth interviews with a prodigious gift for storytelling. This is history that unfolds like a great documentary film - I could not put down this book!’ - J. M. Tyree, Editor of Film Quarterly
– J. M. TyreeAbout The Author
Joseph Pearson
Dr. 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.
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