Checkmate In Berlin Av Giles Milton

<p><b>''Brilliantly written and completely absorbing, this is Milton''s masterpiece'' ANTHONY HOROWITZ</b><br><br><b>BERLIN''S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE.</b><br><br>The city was to be carved up between the victorious powers - British, American, French and Soviet - with four all-powerful commandants ruling over their sectors. On paper, it seemed a pragmatic solution; in reality, it marked the start of a ferocious battle of wits. As relations between east and west broke down, these rival commandants fought a desperate battle for control. In doing so, they fired the starting gun for the Cold War.<br><br> From America''s explosive Frank ''Howlin'' Mad'' Howley, a sharp-tongued colonel with a loathing for Russians, to his nemesis, Russia''s charmingly deceptive General Alexander Kotikov, <b>CHECKMATE IN BERLIN</b> tells the exhilarating, high-stakes story of kidnap, skullduggery, sabotage, murder and the greatest aerial operation in history. This is the epic story of the