The Icon Curtain: The Cold War's Quiet Border

by Yuliya Komska

The Iron Curtain did not exist--at least not as we usually imagine it. Rather than a stark, unbroken line dividing East and West in Cold War Europe, the Iron Curtain was instead made up of distinct landscapes, many in the grip of divergent historical and cultural forces for decades, if not centuries. This book traces a genealogy of one such landscape--the woods between Czechoslovakia and West Germany--to debunk our misconceptions about the iconic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022615419X
• ISBN13: 9780226154190
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"