LibGuides: Cold War: Berlin Blockade

Resources at Gumberg

Print Books: (Follow the links to find out more about the books!)

The Berlin blockade; a study in cold war politics by W. Phillips Davidson
Call Number: DD881 .D3 1958X (Gumberg 3rd floor)
The Truman Years, 1945-1953 by Mark S. Byrnes
Call Number: E813 .B97 2000 (Gumberg 3rd floor)
The Truman Yearsis a concise yet thorough examination of the critical postwar years in the United States. Byrnes argues that the major trends and themes of the American history have their origins during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. He synthesizes the recent Truman literature, and explains the links between domestic U.S. political and social trends and cold war foreign policy.

eBooks: (Note: You will have to enter your MultiPass credentials to access these off-campus.)

Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Early Cold War by Daniel F. Harrington
The Berlin blockade brought former allies to the brink of war. In Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Cold War, Daniel F. Harrington examines the "Berlin question" from its origin in wartime plans for the occupation of Germany through the Paris Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in 1949.

Book Chapters: (Note: You will have to enter your MultiPass credentials to access these off-campus.)

"Berlin Blockade 1948-49, Bipolarity, Europe"
Chapter 9 from "International Political Earthquakes" by Michael Brecher
"The Berlin Blockade Challenges Western Ingenuity and Perseverance"
Chapter 3 from "Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War" by David E. Murphy, Sergei A. Kondrashev, & George Bailey
"The Berlin Blockade"
Chapter 7 from "Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013" by Richard J. Aldrich, Rory Cormac, & Michael S. Goodman

Resources from the Web

"The Berlin Blockade of 1948 to 1949 became one of the earliest tests of the U.S. Cold War policy of containment of the Soviet Union. The U.S. response to the challenge, history's largest exclusively aerial supply effort in the form of the Berlin Airlift, was initially designed as a temporary measure but became symbolic of American ingenuity and resolve." -Dictionary of American History

The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949
From the Dept. of State, Office of the Historian
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
From the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
"The Air Force Can Deliver Anything": A History of the Berlin Airlift
From the U.S. Dept. of Defense

Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot and crew during the Berlin Airlift.

Source: Author unknown, Wikimedia Commons, public domain under Crown Copyright.