Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War Phillips Timothy
Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War Phillips Timothy An epic people's history of Europe's fraught East-West divide, by an intrepid author…
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Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War Phillips Timothy
An epic people's history of Europe's fraught East-West divide, by an intrepid author who followed its path from the Arctic to TurkeyThe Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as its most visible, infamous manifestation. But we cannot consign the tensions and restrictions of the past to history. Since the Cold War ended and these borders came down, Europe has transformed itself.
What do the Curtain and the Wall mean today? At a time when Russia is once again making war and when divisions elsewhere in Europe are on the rise, these old fault lines have new resonance. What have they left in their wake?In this major new book, Timothy Phillips travels the route of the Iron Curtain from deep inside the Arctic Circle to the meeting point of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey.
He explores the borderlands where the clash of
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