Bridge Across the Sky: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948-1949

by Richard Collier

Tells of the greatest airlift in history, when American, British, and French pilots transported food and coal to Berlin to thwart Soviet plans of starving and freezing the city into submission

Genres: History, Nonfiction

239 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Richard Collier, was born in London, England in 1924. He joined the Royal Air Force at eighteen after that, as a war correspondent, he traveled throughout the Far East.

He worked on numerous British and American magazines and wrote more than half a dozen books about the Second World War.

Reviews

[Ruth York · Rating 4 out of 5]

A well written history of the Berlin Airlift. Nice and linear in the timeline (lately, I've read a few non-fictions that did not do this). Obviously, this is just touches on the highlights. However, it was a good read, about a subject I had only a very basic knowledge of, in that I knew it happened, but had no idea of the why and how it came to be, or exactly how it was dealt with.