The story of Sean O'Sullivan, a young American officer in Berlin, who despite his hatred for the Germans falls in love with Ernestine...and on the other side of the Brandenburg Gate Colonel Igor Karlovy, whose goal is a Russian Berlin. The story of the fateful years of Four Power Occupation, through to the airlift: one of the most heroic episodes in European history.

Ever since Leon Uris burst upon the literary scene with his magnificent novel about the American marines, BATTLE CRY, he has been regarded as a supreme writer about significant events of our times.

Following BATTLE CRY came EXODUS, a heroic story about the rebirth of a nation, and MILA 18, concerned with the tragedy of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Now Leon Uris tells a story more dramatic than anything he has attempted before: the story of the origin of the cold war in strife-torn, post-war Germany. He relates how Berlin became the most important place on the face of the earth. The novel ends with the Berlin Airlift, one of the most important episodes in European history. ARMAGEDDON is a novel of Berlin and of the invincibility of free men when they stand defiant.