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Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Early Cold War . By Daniel F. Harrington. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. 2012. Pp. 414. $40.00. ISBN 978-0-8131-3613-4.

In a similar vein, a major part of the counterinsurgency program, Shepherd shows, was the attempt to raise and train local units to keep the peace, especially against the Communist Partisans, who were quite capable of carrying out their own kind of terror, often against noncomplying civilians. Although the author leaves no doubt that German brutality in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia created horrifying desolation, his study points up the wide variety of problems facing any country at this stage of human history that chooses to invade and occupy another, whether it embraces terror policy or not. The history of the lands of Yugoslavia during period of World War II has always been marked by baffling complexity, for contemporary observers as well as historians. Shepherd’s account adds to the detail and richness of the picture. But paradoxically, Shepherd manages to simplify this complicated story in striking ways. A careful framework allows Shepherd to explain the complicated relationships between the German army, the Italian occupiers, the Ustasha regime, Tito’s Partisans, Mihailovich’s Chetniks, and many other groups clearly and effectively. This clarity constitutes another important aspect of this important book.