Coal, Calories and Candy Bombers: the Berlin Airlift 1948-9
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
The Berlin Blockade began 70 years ago, in June 1948, and became one of the first great tests of the Cold War. The Allied response, in the form of the Berlin Airlift, contributed to the formation of NATO and the …