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BERLIN AIRLIFT - WILLIAMS, Thomas Melling, Air MarshalBiblio.com

A Report on Operation Plainfare The Berlin Airlift 25th June 1948 - 6th October 1949.

1950réf. 173243Bielefeld Germany: Prepared by Headquarters British Air Forces of Occupation Air Ministry Assistant Chief of Air Staff Operations April 1950. An effort of Biblical proportions Sole edition classified RESTRICTED. This definitive report on the British contribution during the first major crisis of the Cold War was compiled under Air Marshal Williams as C-i-C British Air Forces he received the DSM US for his services. Rare WorldCat notes five locations: Smithsonian National defence University Library Calgary University the Dutch Defensiebibliotheken and the British Library; Library Hub adds the National Aerospace Library. Until relatively recently this remarkable logistical achievement "given its acknowledged importance has been poorly served by its historiography" and particularly so the British contribution Keen p. ii. Current research based in the close examination of sources such as the present report seems to confirm "that the RAF and Civil Lift aircraft were necessary for the logistical success of the total Anglo-American operation and would have continued to be so in the long-term commitment being planned" ibid. p. 263. The ambitions of the report were intentionally widely inclusive being compiled so as "to give as complete a picture as possible of this highly complicated and integrated operation. While the Headquarters B.A.F.O. was the primary operating agency on the British side many other formations took a very active and important part in making the success of the operation possible. so slight incursions have been made into realms that were properly the responsibility of other services and other commands. reports by other formations have been included as appendices so that as much as possible of the valuable experience gained on this operation will be collected under one cover and can be available for reference if it should ever be necessary to carry out a similar operation" Introduction. The account is presented thematically covering The Task The Implements of the Airlift Air Operations Communications Equipment Personnel Freight - Organisation and Handling Accomplishments of the Airlift and a Summary of Lessons Learnt; the appendices include substantial reports from the Officer Commanding Transport Force during the first three weeks of operations from the Operational Research Branch and the Combined Airlift Task Force together with highly informative reviews of meteorology signals technical and equipment organisation. "The achievements of the airlift in statistical terms are impressive enough. The total tonnage lifted into Berlin by British and American aircraft was 2325808.7 tons. Of this the British lift carried 542236 tons split of which the RAF carried 394509 tons. The British carried 241000 tons of food 165000 tons of coal and 92000 tons of wet fuel all the latter in civil aircraft. They also carried 35000 tons of freight including 12800 tons of economic goods and 131436 passengers out of the city. British aircraft flew more than 32 million miles consumed over 35 million gallons of Avgas and spent over 200000 hours in the air. They helped sustain a city of more than two and a half million inhabitants for many months including through the winter. Just as importantly however was that in the first real test of the Cold War they demonstrated immense western resolve in the face of Soviet provocation and intransigence and dealt a significant blow to Soviet prestige and influence with incalculable effects on Western European communist parties particularly those in France and Italy. The western presence in Berlin was maintained and it remained as a beacon of freedom inside the Communist bloc not to mention acting as a very useful centre for intelligence gathering. The airlift also demonstrated to a Service dominated by airmen from an offensive bomber and tactical air background that the RAF's air transport capability could be deployed as a strategic asset to considerable effect" Cox pp. 30-31 Folio. Eight halftone plates folding plan of an "ideal airfield" and 8 full-page plans of actual air fields at the rear numerous plans maps diagrams and tables to the text many full-page many printed in colours. Original moderate olive brown sand-grain half cloth strong yellow printed paper-covered boards spine unlettered. Externally somewhat rubbed bumped and soiled front cover lightly damp-stained at the bottom edge softened and consequently bruised contents toned but overall very good. Sebastian Cox "An Effort of Biblical Proportions The Berlin Airlift 19481949" Air Power Review 21 2 Summer 2018; Richard David Keen Half a million tons and a goat: a study of British participation in the Berlin Airlift University of Buckingham PhD 2013 hardcover

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BERLIN, Isaiah (1909 - 1997)Biblio.com

Extraordinary Typed Letter Signed about Edmond Wilson

réf. 222098Oxford 1987. unbound. 3 pages front and back on "Headington House" stationery 8.25 x 5.75 inches Oxford April 28 1987. Written to noted Civil Rights attorney Howard N. Meyer responding to an article that Meyer had written about Wilson and "Patriotic Gore" in small part: ".There was an element of permanent as it were un-critical radicalism in Wilson - hatred of establishments suspicion of the motives of all public men natural reaction to slogans and clarion calls and eloquence in political or national causes within the framework of the establishments of what he regarded as hopelessly bourgeois countries - he thought that all wars certainly since Napoleon were monstrous bloodshed of a horrible kind in the interests of groups disguised as ideals - all that he got from Marx and similar writers - this applied to both World Wars and obviously to the Civil War and rather more plausibly to Vietnam. He obviously did not mind sheer killing as such because that does not emerge in for example 'To the Finland Station' - it was only towards the end of his life partly under the influence of Solzhenitsyn and other irrefutable evidence that he turned against the Soviet Union and became nauseated by Stalin and everything to do with him - and his distaste even turned to the once-hallowed Lenin. I had a conversation with him in which he reminded me that I had said that he was too nice about Lenin - he agreed and the Introduction to the second or a later edition of 'To the Finland Station' altered this approach.I realize and from my knowledge of Edmund whose memory I still revere and of whom I am deeply fond. His loss of faith in Russia which began after his visit in the thirties but still persisted when I first met him was I suppose true of an entire generation of American leftists and British ones too; It was a marvelous mass delusion which I think perhaps has no parallel in history. Of course he must have been right in part about the crushing of the Southern states the exploitation and the bullying.but this should not have extended to respect for his violent and irrational political prejudices ferocious suspicion and desire to discredit honorable human motives just wars general idealism above all Lincoln's reputation. He simply wanted to attack icons and fetishes as such - and in the course of this said a great many untrue unjust and silly things." This letter contains much more fine content and is effectively an unpublished essay and critique of one of the most distinguished writers of the 20th century. Horizontal folds tiny stains and a paperclip impression in the top margins. Still very good condition. Russian-British philosopher and historian of ideas regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century and as the dominant liberal scholar of his generation. unknown

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BERLIN, Isaiah (1909 - 1997)ABAA

Extraordinary Typed Letter Signed about Edmond Wilson

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Jünger, Ernst / Siedler, Wolf Jobst. - JÜNGER, Ernst:MareMagnum

Brief des Schriftstellers Ernst Jünger an den Verleger und Freund Wolf Jobst Siedler. Original-Brief im Umfeld des 60. Geburtstags Siedlers im Jahr 1986.

(ca. 29,5 x 21 cm). 2 S. Original-Brief auf gelbem Papier, maschinengeschrieben, mit Datierung und handschriftlicher Signatur. Papier wurde gefaltet, gut erhalten. Der Brief des Schriftstellers Ernst Jünger richtet sich an den für die alte Bundesrepublik bedeutenden Verleger Wolf Jobst Siedler. Siedler war seit Anfang der 1960er Jahre als konservativ-kritischer Journalist, Essayist und Verleger in Westberlin tätig. Insbesondere seine verlegerische Tätigkeit im Siedler Verlag machte ihn für viele Menschen in der BRD zu einem bedeutenden Zeitgenossen. Im Januar 1986 feierte Siedler seinen 60. Geburtstag, mit Würdigungen in allen wichtigen Medien der westdeutschen Öffentlichkeit. Der Brief wurde von Jünger im Umfeld dieses Jubiläums verfasst, geht jedoch ganz deutlich darüber hinaus. Das Schreiben vom 15. Januar 1986 (maschinengeschrieben und handsigniert) umfasst etwa eineinhalb dicht befüllte A4-Seiten (insgesamt 40 Zeilen). Es trägt im Briefkopf Name und Anschrift des Verfassers (D-7945 Langenenslingen 1, Wilflingen). Jünger schrieb dem deutlich jüngeren Freund einen überaus persönlichen Brief zu dessen Geburtstag. Statt seinen Brief mit Glückwünschen zu beginnen schreibt er zum Jubiläum Siedlers über das Altern: "Wie die Zeit vergeht - das spüre ich weniger am eigenen Altern, als durch die Jubiläen der Freunde und Gefährten, besonders, wenn ich sie schon in ihrer Jugend gekannt habe. Sie behalten diese Jugend in meiner Vorstellung." In den folgenden zwei Absätzen erinnert Jünger den Grund ihrer ersten Begegnung. Jüngers Sohn Ernst war mit dem späteren Verleger Wolf Jobst Siedler inhaftiert worden. Jünger schreibt: "Damals, am 12. Februar 1944, erreichte mich in Paris ein nächtlicher Anruf des Kaplans Ronneberger: mein Sohn Ernst sei wegen aufrührerischer Reden im Gefängnis Wilhelmshaven, zusammen mit einem jungen Kameraden - dieser Freund und Kamerad waren Sie. [...] Daß es uns damals mit gutem Beistand gelungen ist, das Ärgste von Ihnen beiden abzuwenden, wurde mir erst allmählich und nach vielen Jahren bewußt. Daß Ernstel dennoch heute unter den Gratulanten fehlt, bleibt Ihnen wie mir ein nicht heilender Verlust." Später formuliert Jünger einiges Lob für den Verleger, wenn er schreibt: "Ein großer Geburtstag, soweit er über das Familiäre hinausreicht, setzt voraus, daß sich der Jubiliar einen Namen gemacht hat, und das ist Ihnen geglückt. Für ihren guten Stern spricht, daß ihr väterliches Haus inmitten des Unheils, während dessen ich zum ersten Male in ihm weilte, unzerstört geblieben ist, Das hat mich gerührt, als ich es im vorigen Jahre nach so langer Zeit wieder betrat." Auch seine Verehrung für die schriftstellerische Leistung Siedlers hat Jünger im Brief über Umwege formuliert. Er schrieb an den einunddreißig Jahre jüngeren Freund: "Ich sollte nun meinen Dank auch als Leser begründen, doch der Rahmen eines Geburtstagsbriefes ist begrenzt. Desgleichen will ich, da ich der Angesprochene war, mich auf Dank beschränken für die bisherige Krönung unserer Freundschaft: Ihre Laudatio anläßlich der Verleihung des Goethe-Preises an mich in der Frankfurter Paulskirche. Das war keine leichte Aufgabe [...]". Ernst Jünger und der Verleger Wolf Jobst Siedler waren auch über gemeinsame Buchprojekte (Bäume. Essays, Gedichte und Bilder / Propyläen 1977) hinaus einander verbunden. Der junge Siedler war ein Freund des Sohnes von Ernst Jünger ("Ernstel", siehe Brief). Dieser starb im späteren Kriegsverlauf mit gerade erst 17-18 Jahren. Der spätere Verleger Siedler war also seit den 1940er Jahren der ganzen Familie Jünger verbunden und lebende Verbindung zum gefallenen Sohn. Sehr persönlicher und gehaltvoller Brief des Schriftstellers Ernst Jünger an den Freund und Verleger Wolf Jobst Siedler!

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