Timothy Phillips

Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Across 3,000 miles and over eight decades, this epic new people's history of the Cold War makes eye-opening sense of a defining 20th-century conflictand how it continues to shape our world today.

Initially a victory line where Allies met at the end of World War Two, the Iron Curtain quickly became the front of a new kind of war. It divided Europe from north to south for a staggering forty-five years. Crossing it in either direction was always a political act; in many cases, it was a crime to even talk about doing so. New generations have grown up since these borders came down, freed from the restrictions of the Cold War era. But what has the Iron Curtain left in its wake?

Timothy Phillips travels its full 3,000-mile routefrom inside the Arctic Circle to where Armenia meets Azerbaijan and Turkeyto craft this epic new people's history of a defining 2oth-century conflict. Here, in the borderlands where a powerful clash of civilizations took form in concrete and barbed wire, he uncovers the remarkable stories of everyday people forever imprinted by life in the Curtain's long shadow.

Some look back on the era with nostalgia, even affection, while others despise it, unable to forgive the decades of hardship their families and nations endured. A director recalls the astonishing night his movie premiered in East GermanyNovember 9, 1989, the very night the Berlin Wall fell. And a railroad worker recounts the 1951 hijacking of a passenger train from Czechoslovakia that breached the Curtain, granting those aboard immediate asylum in the West. These narratives, by turns harrowing and heartening, paint a vivid portrait of the new Europe that emerged from the ruins. Phillips reveals the Iron Curtain's profound impact on our world todayeven as he punctures the fault lines we draw.

Publisher's note: This book was published in the UK under the title The Curtain and the Wall.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Experiment
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781615199655
• Artikelnr.: 67557866

Autorenporträt

Timothy Phillips holds a doctorate in Russian from Oxford University and has written and spoken widely on British and Russian history. He's a contributor at BBC News and the Irish Times and the author of Beslan: The Tragedy of School No. 1 as well as The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians, and the Jazz Age. He grew up in Northern Ireland and now lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Maps
Author’s Note
Preface: Mullafarry, Republic of Ireland
 
PART I
1 Oslo, Norway
2 Kirkenes and Grense Jakobselv, Norway
3 Porkkala, Finland
4 Vyborg, Russia
5 Riga, Latvia
6 Liepaja, Latvia
 
PART II
7 Gotland, Sweden
8 Bornholm, Denmark
9 Rügen and Priwall, Germany
 
PART III
10 Schlagsdorf and Helmstedt, Germany
11 Berlin, Germany
12 Potsdam, Germany
 
PART IV
13 Selb, Germany, and Aš, Czechia
14 Bratislava, Slovakia
15 Vienna, Austria
16 Sopron, Hungary
 
PART V
17 Nova Gorica, Slovenia, and Gorizia, Italy (I)
18 Nova Gorica, Slovenia, and Gorizia, Italy (II)
19 Trieste, Italy
20 Tirana and Sarandë, Albania
21 Corfu, Greece
22 Gevgelija, North Macedonia
23 Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan
 
Epilogue: Sadarak, Azerbaijan, and Ani, Turkey
Acknowledgments
Notes
Select Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index