Checkmate in Berlin
The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
Giles Milton
From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II as it’s never been told before BERLIN’S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE: the city, along with the rest of Germany, was to be carved up among the victorious powers— the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet...
Publish Date
2021-07-13T00:00:00.000Z
2021-07-13T00:00:00.000Z
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4.43
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2021-05-18T06:23:04.000Z
Today’s book by @GilesMilton1. The determination of Ernie Bevin, Labour’s great postwar Foreign Secretary, to prevent Stalin advancing into west Germany and then Western Europe was the critical backdrop to the successful defence of West Berlin after 1945 – source