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IRON CURTAIN - ANNE APPLEBAUM KARTONIERT (TB)

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 TimesAt 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
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