The Candy Bombers officially goes on sale today (though I've been getting reports for days of people around the country seeing it out early in their local bookstore displays). I'm doing a bunch of radio interviews across the country today and tomorrow. And we got a new review from the Washington Post express:

Andrei Cherny's new book, "The Candy Bombers," is subtitled "The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour," and it's everything one could want from a work of history — engrossing, informative and stirring.

Cherny takes readers inside the eerie last days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, the jubilant first meetings of Allied soldiers astride a defeated Germany, the quick pivot to the Cold War footing, the four-way 1948 presidential race and, chiefly, the intricacies of surmounting the Soviet blockade of American-occupied Berlin to bring food to the starving city, and the manner in which unplanned acts of kindness won over the people of Germany and the world.

The author does a beautiful job with both the arc of history and the minutiae of the lives of those making it.