Richard Reeves’ new Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949 is briefly reviewed by Steve Weinberg in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
I’m looking forward to reading Reeves’ book with great relish, and in particular to comparing it with Andrei Cherney’s superlative The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s Finest Hour. (See our earlier review of Cherney’s outstanding work in The Power of Chocolate.) If you’re unfamiliar with the events of the ‘Berliner Luft’, this latter book is a “must read.”
Hungry Berlin children await the arrival of American planes at Berlin's Tempelhof Airport
A C-54 comes in for a landing at Tempelhof as Berliners wait atop a mountain of rubble
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