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Iron Curtain - The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 (Paperback)
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Iron Curtain - The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 (Paperback)
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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 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. A
haunting reminder of how fragile freedom can be, Iron Curtain is an
exceptional work of historical and moral reckoning. ANNE APPLEBAUM
is a historian and journalist, a regular columnist for the
Washington Post and Slate, and the author of several books,
including Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for
non-fiction. She is the Director of Political Studies at the
Legatum Institute in London, and she divides her time between
Britain and Poland, where her husband, Radek Sikorski, serves as
Foreign Minister. '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
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