Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June…

...the real value of Reeves's book lies in the remarkable human sagas he collected through hundreds of interviews with uncelebrated pilots, mechanics, weathermen and ground controllers who sustained the airlift for almost a year. Many of them had fought the Germans and returned home to start families or begin new jobs. Now, barely three years later, they were going back to Europe to help feed their former enemies.

Columnist and presidential biographer on one of the pivotal moments of the Cold War.