Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956
#279 of 3,809 books · #96 in History
Won the Cundill History Prize (2013). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.
Iron Curtain chronicles how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.
Awards
- Cundill History PrizeWon(2013)
- PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionShortlisted(2013)
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2012)
Other awarded books from Anne Applebaum
- Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps (2012)1 win · 27 score
- Autocracy Inc. (2024)0 wins · 3 score
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (2017)0 wins · 3 score
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