The Iron Curtain

The story of the creation of the Soviet empire that split Europe in half for
half a century.

"A masterful chronicle", Niall Ferguson

"A book of exceptional importance", Antony Beevor

"A detailed and eloquent description of events that happened recently
and close to us that contain many lessons for the present", Fareed Zakaria

"Applebaum's absorbing book is distinguished by its ability to
describe and evoke the human and individual experience of Sovietization," Timothy GartonAsh

National Book Award Finalist

TIME Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012

A New York Times Notable Book

A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012

Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain Dealer

"One of the most interesting but rigorous works on European history
to appear in recent years."

#The Washington Post

"Astonishing. A book that resurrects a world largely hidden from
the West, and that many of the people who inhabited and suffered
in it would prefer to forget."

#The New Yorker

"An epic but also human story"

#The Wall Street Journal

"Illuminating."

#The Economist

"The tragic and intimate chronicle of how communism was imposed in Central
Europe."

#David Frum, The Daily Beast, Favorite Books of 2012

"A disturbing but fascinating story. Thanks to its precision and the
lucidity of its analysis, Applebaum has written a masterful work on
the brutality of Soviet rule."

#PublishersWeekly, Best Book of 2012

"Masterful . . . Her extraordinary knowledge of the region, broad
perspective and sensitivity to human details make this book as
compelling as her previous one about the Gulag."

#Daily Mail

"A true masterpiece. Stunning. Applebaum's account of this astonishing
era has everything a good history book should have: research that is
as extensive as it is brilliant, a beautiful and surprising narrative,
encyclopedic ambition, meticulous attention to detail."#The Telegraph (UK)