JOSEPH PEARSON was born in Edmonton in 1975. He graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont and received a master's degree in philosophy and his doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge. Pearson worked for the United Nations and the European Commission before returning to teaching, first at Columbia University and then at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin, where he lectures on the humanities and creative writing. His essays and short fiction appear regularly in literary journals, and he is the author of Berlin, a portrait of the city in which he currently lives.
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The fascinating story of how a forgotten group of airmen—who had spent World War II dropping Allied bombs on Berlin—risked their lives in 1948-49 dropping chocolate bars from the sky. After Hitler’s defeat in World War II, Europe&... SEE MORE