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  title info:
    title: Checkmate in Berlin
    sub title: the Cold War showdown that shaped the modern world
  name:
    name part: Milton, Giles
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: After the 1945 Yalta Conference, Berlin, along with the rest of Germany, was to be carved up among the victorious powers. On paper, it seemed a pragmatic solution. In reality, once the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union were no longer united by the common purpose of defeating Germany, they wasted little time reverting to their prewar hostility toward one another. Milton introduces readers to individuals like America's explosive Frank "Howlin' Mad" Howley, a brusque sharp-tongued colonel with loathing for all Russians. Howley fought an intensely personal battle against his nemesis, General Alexander Kotikov, commandant of the Soviet sector. They were flawed individuals who were determined to win, and Milton shows that they had a shaping force on the modern world, one that's still felt today.
  table of contents: The road to Berlin -- Flag on the Reichstag -- Red Berlin -- Loot -- Arrival of the allies -- Life on the edge -- Dividing the spoils -- Let battle commence -- Enter the overlords -- The Iron Curtain -- Ministry of lies -- Crime and punishment -- Playing dirty -- Shifting sands -- Breaking point -- The perfect siege -- Flying high -- The sky's the limit -- Checkmate -- Fruits of victory.
  note: Giles Milton.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-357) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gx---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Howley, Frank L
      name part: 1903-1993
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kotikov, A. G. (Aleksandr Georgievich)
      name part: 1902-1981
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    geographic: Germany
    geographic: Berlin
  subject:
    topic: Cold War
  subject:
    geographic: Berlin (Germany)
    topic: History
    temporal: 1945-1990
  subject:
    geographic: Berlin (Germany)
    topic: Strategic aspects
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / Germany
  classification: DD881 .M53 2021
  classification: 943/.1550874
  identifier: 9781250247568
  identifier: 125024756X
  identifier: 9781250247551
  identifier: 2021002362
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210129
    record change date: 20211018102504.0
    record identifier: in00004449877