Overview
Timothy Phillips travels its full 3,000-mile routeāfrom inside the Arctic Circle to where Armenia meets Azerbaijan and Turkeyāto craft this epic new peopleās 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 Curtainās 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 GermanyāNovember 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 Curtainās profound impact on our world todayāeven as he punctures the fault lines we draw.
Publisherās note: This book was published in the UK under the title The Curtain and the Wall.
This book title, Retracing the Iron Curtain (A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War), ISBN: 9781615199648, by Timothy Phillips, published by The Experiment (March 7, 2023) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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