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To Save A City: The Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949 [Illustrated Edition]
Includes 30 Illustrations In this expert survey Air Force Historian Robert Miller explores the Epic story of the Berlin Airlift, the confrontation of Democracy and Communism as the world teetered on the brink of the Third World War. The Berlin blockade (24 June 1948;–12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies’ railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutschmark from West Berlin. In response, the Western Allies org...
Roger Miller
Cusic traces the personal life and career of Roger Miller, from Erick, Oklahoma, to the Country Music Hall of Fame and shows why he was an American genius.
Roger Miller Super Hits
Blessed with a sly, almost surreal wit, a keen eye for the little gestures that bind people together or tear them apart, and a knack for wry social commentary, Roger Miller embraced both the sublime and the ridiculous in mainstream country's Lingua Franca and made simple but memorable art out of it. Singing in a warm, folksy style, Miller sounded as right in the pop field as he did in country, making him not only a crossover smash, but, given his lyrical concerns, a true subversive.
To Save a City
Following World War II, the Soviet Union drew an Iron Curtain across Europe, crowning its efforts with a blockade of West Berlin in a desperate effort to prevent the creation of an independent, democratic West Germany. The United States and Great Britain, aided by France, responded with a daring air logistical operation that in fifteen months delivered almost three million tons of coal, food, and other necessities to the people of Berlin. Now, drawing on rare U.S. Air Force files, recently declassified documents from the National Archives, records released since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the memories of airlift veterans themselves, Roger G. Miller provides an original study of th...
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