"In Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Cold War, Daniel F. Harrington examines the 'Berlin question' from its origin in wartime plans for the occupation of Germany through the Paris Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in 1949. Harrington draws on previously untapped archival sources to challenge standard accounts of the postwar division of Germany, the origins of the blockade, the original purpose of the airlift, and the leadership...