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(2021) This is the story of Berlin, from the end of WWII through the Soviet blockade. I've been aware of this history in vague outline since high school, but Milton puts flesh on it and makes it easy to appreciate what an amazing impossible project of engineering and logistics the Berlin Airlift really was. This is the kind of popular narrative history I love: Candice Millard and Erik Larsen territory. Recommended.

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Twilight arrived early in the Crimean Mountains, with dusk falling at four thirty and darkness shortly after.

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Finished this book for August #BookSpin tonight, unfortunately a day late. It looks at how the Cold War began.
If you are interested in history, you should read it. It does get bogged down in places, are at least it did for me.

Thanks to Goodreads, Henry Holt Books and Giles Milton for a copy of the book.

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Read 9 3/4 books in August. Book tagged is the one I am 3/4 done with. First thing I have read this many 📚's in awhile. Loving #BookSpin and #BookSpinBingo