Berlin on the Brink

Berlin on the Brink
Author: Daniel F. Harrington
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2012-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 081313613X

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This study examines the 'Berlin question' from its origin in wartime plans for the occupation of Germany to the Paris Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in 1949. Tracing the blockade's origins, it explains why British and American planners during the Second World War neglected Western access to post-war Berlin and why Western officials did little to reduce Berlin's vulnerability as Cold War tensions increased.