"What an exciting, inspiring, and wonderfully-written book this is! The dramatic tale of America's response to the Berlin blockade involves a colorful cast of characters, great and flawed, who defined the way a great nation could act as a benevolent world power. Each page has lessons for today, and it is also a thrilling narrative to read. Cherny has produced a book that lives up to this glorious American moment in history."
—Walter Isaacson, author of The Wise Men, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin.

"Andrei Cherny's The Candy Bombers is a gripping, suspenseful narrative history about the U.S. Cold War era pilots determined to help the freedom - strangled citizens of West Berlin survive Soviet tyranny.  Written with incredible verve and vivid detail, Andrei Cherny succeeds in making those harrowing days of Berlin circa 1948-49 come alive.  As a historian he reminds me of Stephen Ambrose at his best."
—Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University, author of The Great Deluge, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc, Tour of Duty, and editor of The Reagan Diaries.

"The early Cold War era was as tense as the days after 9/11. Andrei Cherny captures, in vivid detail, the excitement and drama of the U.S. response to the Soviet blockade of Berlin. You will have a hard time not cheering—or feeling moved—when America rescues its former enemy in the name of freedom."
—Evan Thomas, author of The Wise Men, Sea of Thunder, and John Paul Jones.

"Writing with the flair of a novelist, Cherny tells the story of the Berlin Airlift...Cherny dramatically weaves together the conjoined fates of numerous characters.... The author skillfully delineates the airlift's role in dramatically improving Germans' and Americans' attitudes toward each other, with significant consequences for the Cold War."
—Kirkus Reviews

"A successful work of popular history...an enjoyable, timely narrative."
—Dallas Morning News

"Everything one could want from a work of history — engrossing, informative and stirring…The author does a beautiful job with both the arc of history and the minutiae of the lives of those making it."
—Washington Post Express

The Berlin Airlift’s “tale of American expertise, ingenuity, and generosity is told vividly by Andrei Cherny in his wonderfully readable book The Candy Bombers.”
—U.S. News and World Report

“A fascinating read”
—Washington Times

“Superb scholarship, thrilling story-telling”
—Newsweek's Jonathan Alter

“One of the finest narrative histories that I have read in years”
—World Affairs' Lawrence Kaplan