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THE CURTAIN AND THE WALL - TIMOTHY PHILLIPS KAR...

The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe  north to south  with the Berlin Wall as its
most visible  infamous manifestation. Since the Cold War ended and these borders came down 
Europe has transformed itself. But we cannot consign the tensions and restrictions of the past
to history. 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 do the Curtain and the
Wall mean today? 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 civilisations
was at its most intense between 1945 and 1989  and where the world's most powerful ideologies
became tangible in reinforced concrete and barbed wire. He looks at the new Europe that emerged
from the ruins. The people he meets bear vivid witness to times of change. There are those who
look back on the Cold War with nostalgia and affection. Others despise it  unable to forgive
the hard and sometimes lost decades that their families  friends and nations endured. In these
historic landscapes lie buried many of the seeds of our world's current disputes - over borders
and about belonging and the meaning of progress. The Curtain and the Wall transports the reader
across 5 000 kilometres of Europe and through eight decades  to show how one of the defining
stories of the 20th century continues to shape our world today.

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