The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
by:
Andrei Cherny (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780594039853 (0594039851)
Publish date: April 17th 2008
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 640
Edition language: English
Talk about your non-fiction books that read like a novel. I could not put this book down and I stayed up too late a couple of nights because I just lost track of time. I'm a child of the 70's but my parents were born in the 20's and my father was a Navy fighter pilot in WWII, but his orders were ...
This book was a wonderful and fast read. Operation Berlin Airlift (OBA 1948-1949) is the often-overlooked middle child of the post-WWII rebuilding-OBA-Korean War military family that led to the early years of the Cold. War. Yet, the event had remarkable importance that still goes unnoticed by most ...
I am a military veteran and I hate studying/reading about military history. There have only been two books that are on my keeper list - this one and The Generals' War. I read this book because it was on the Air Force's Chief of Staff reading list in 2010. This book is not about a war/battle at all, ...
9 years ago
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