Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin

Armageddon

1st edition front cover
Author Leon Uris
Country United States
Language English
Genre Historical, War novel
Publisher Dell Books
Publication date
1963
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 632 pp (1st Edition)
ISBN ISBN 0-440-10290-1
OCLC 19004169

Armageddon, or Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin, is a novel by Leon Uris about post-World War II Berlin and Germany. The novel starts in London during WWII, and goes through to the Four Power occupation of Berlin and the Soviet blockade by land of the city's western boroughs. The description of the Berlin Airlift is quite vivid as is the inter-action between people of the five nations involved as the three major Western Allies rub along with the Soviet occupiers of East Berlin and East Germany. The book finishes with the end of the airlift but sets the scene for the following 40 years of Cold War.

The book explains some important consequences of defeating Nazi Germany: