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The Iron Curtain
Author : Bruce L. Brager
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791078329
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
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Download or read book The Iron Curtain written by Bruce L. Brager and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting Central Europe, in 1962, a visitor would not see a real "Iron Curtain." There was no huge piece of grim drapery splitting Europe between Communist dictatorships and democracies. The Iron Curtain represented the Central European part of the Cold War, the generally peaceful, but highly dangerous, forty-year competition between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. The Iron Curtain symbolically represented the attempt to permanently, artificially, and arbitrarily split one part of Central Europe from the other. Although there was no real iron curtain, there was lots of steel in the form of barbed wire, ground radar, watchtowers, and machine guns in the hands of troops willing to use them. The boundary between democracy and totalitarianism was clear. This book tells the story of the Iron Curtain, and the Cold War it so vividly represented, from the start of World War II to its end with the dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Book jacket.
Iron Curtain
Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Signal
ISBN 13 : 0771007655
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)
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Download or read book Iron Curtain written by Anne Applebaum and published by Signal. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of WWII, the Soviet Union, to its surprise and delight, found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Central Europe. It set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system, Communism. Iron Curtain describes how the communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created, and what daily life was like once they were complete. Applebaum draws on newly opened European archives and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devestating detail millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief, rendered worthless their every qualification, and took everything away they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Block is a lost civilization, once whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality and strange aethestics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of this book.
Iron Curtain
Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780141021874
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)
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Download or read book Iron Curtain written by Anne Applebaum and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2013 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system- Communism. Anne Applebaum's landmark history of this brutal time shows how societies were ruthlessly eviscerated by Communist regimes, how opposition was destroyed and what life was like for ordinary people who had to choose whether to fight, to flee or to collaborate. Iron Curtainis an exceptional work of historical and moral reckoning, and a haunting reminder of how fragile freedom can be. Chosen 16 times as a 'Book of the Year' - The top Non-Fiction pick of 2012'The best work of modern history I have ever read.' A. N. Wilson, Financial Times'The outstanding book of the year . . . a masterpiece.' Oliver Kamm, The Times, Books of the Year 'Exceptionally important, wise, perceptive, remarkably objective.' Antony Beevor 'Explains in a manner worthy of Arthur Koestler what totalitarianism really means . . . it is a window into a world of lies and evil that we can hardly imagine.' Edward Lucas, Standpoint 'At last the story can be told . . . a magisterial history.' Orlando Figes, Mail on Sunday
Iron Curtain: A Love Story
Author : Vesna Goldsworthy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 132402173X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
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Download or read book Iron Curtain: A Love Story written by Vesna Goldsworthy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East and West collide in a “timely” and “bittersweet tale of loyalty, love, and the siren call of freedom” (Rebecca Abrams, Financial Times). Milena Urbanska is a red princess living in a Soviet satellite state in the 1980s. She enjoys limitless luxury and limited freedom; the end of the Cold War seems unimaginable. When she meets Jason, a confident but politically naive British poet, they fall into bed together. Before long, Milena is planning her escape. She follows Jason to London, where she’s shocked to find herself living in bohemian poverty. The rented apartment is dingy, the food disgusting, and Jason’s family withholding, but at least there are no hidden cameras recording her every move. As she adjusts to her new life, however, Milena discovers the dark side of Jason’s idea of freedom. With cool wit and tender precision, Vesna Goldsworthy delivers a razor-sharp vision of two worlds on the brink of change, amidst the failures of family and state. Iron Curtain is a sly, elegant comedy of manners that challenges the myths we tell ourselves.
The Iron Curtain
Author : Igor Gouzenko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598985491
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
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Download or read book The Iron Curtain written by Igor Gouzenko and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written partly in English and partly in Russian and rewritten by A.W. O'Brien of Montreal. Also pub. in Canada under title: This was my choice.
John Updike and the Cold War
Author : Daniel Quentin Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
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Download or read book John Updike and the Cold War written by Daniel Quentin Miller and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quentin Miller argues that because Updike's career began as the Cold War was taking shape in the mid-1950s, the world he creates in his entire literary oeuvre - fiction, poetry, and nonfiction prose - reflects the optimism and the anxiety of that decade."--BOOK JACKET.
The Iron Curtain
Author : Igor Gouzenko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
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Download or read book The Iron Curtain written by Igor Gouzenko and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Iron Curtain
Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Signal
ISBN 13 : 0771007647
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
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Download or read book Iron Curtain written by Anne Applebaum and published by Signal. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long-awaited National Book Award--shortlisted follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize--winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Central Europe after WW II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of WW II, the Soviet Union, to its surprise and delight, found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Central Europe. It set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system: Communism. Iron Curtain describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created, and what daily life was like once they were completed. Applebaum draws on newly opened European archives and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief, rendered worthless their every qualification, and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality and strange aethestics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of this book.
The Iron Curtain
Author : Robert Vaughan
Publisher : eReads.com
ISBN 13 : 9781585866380
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
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Download or read book The Iron Curtain written by Robert Vaughan and published by eReads.com. This book was released on 1994-12-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume six of Robert Vaughan's American Chronicles begins with the emergence of a new America from the fiery furor of World War II, an America ready and eager to grasp the future. But the country cannot escape the shadows of the past horrors nor the obligation to the brave souls who fought for liberty and peace. As the defeated Germany faces her fate at Nuremberg and a Red scare makes its mark in every household, stories of courage, celebration, and the realization of destinies take place. Holocaust survivor Anna Gelbman heads off to Palestine to fight for a new homeland and to search for a daughter she hopes is still alive. Black pilot and war hero Travis Jackson's homecoming to Mississippi results in another battle, this time for equality. Award-winning war correspondent Shaylin McKay faces up to her devastating dread of love and loss after watching two men succumb to the terrors of war. Gifted Hollywood director Guy Colby, branded a Communist, sees his dreams fade as the witch-hunt continues.
