Timothy Phillips

Retracing the Iron Curtain

A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An epic people’s history of life in the shadow of the Iron Curtain, from an intrepid reporter who traveled all 3,000 miles of the former East-West barrier to investigate the deep and lingering aftermath of the Cold War

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Experiment
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9781615199648
• ISBN-10: 1615199640
• Artikelnr.: 64199194

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