berlin (germany)

Mike Klingenberg is a troubled fourteen-year-old from a dysfunctional family in Berlin who thinks of himself as boring, so when a Russian juvenile delinquent called Tschick begins to pay attention to him and include Mike in his criminal activities, he is excited--until those activities lead to disaster on the autobahn.

Presents the history of the Berlin airlift during World War II that dropped food and supplies to the Russian people who were surrounded by Nazis. Provides background to the Russian blockade, and discusses the pilots who volunteered, the tonnage of supplies, the end of the airlift, and its legacy. Includes photographs, figures and statistics, a chronology, and primary source documents.

Chronicles the story of the Berlin Airlift when the Russians blocked all traffic from Berlin's American, British, and French-occupied sectors.

After the music of a popular German American jazz band is banned by the Nazis in 1939, they escape to Paris where their young trumpet player Hieronymus Falk is arrested by the Gestapo and is never heard from again. In 1992, an original member of the band, Sid Griffiths, breaks his silence and finally reveals what happened to Falk.

Describes the humanitarian efforts to provide Berlin with food and fuel supplies after the Soviet Union closed off all land and water access to Berlin in 1948.

Draws from unclassified documents, unpublished letters and diaries, and interviews to provide a historical narrative of the Berlin Airlift of 1948.

Provides an account of the Cold War, focusing on the construction and destruction of the Berlin Wall, which became a symbol of the conflict.

Describes the 1948-49 airlift by which the U.S. and Great Britain brought food and supplies to West Berlin during a blockade of the city by the Soviet Union.

Chronicles the events surrounding the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949, explaining how it demonstrated the power of air logistics as a political instrument and became the first Western victory of the Cold War.

Examines the operation of Soviet and Western diplomacy, the behavior of a population under physical and psychological stress, and the part played by public opinion in a cold war crisis, through a study of the Berlin blockade which was initiated in June 1948 when the Soviet Union cut overland communications between the city and West Germany.