Cold War Memory

Applebaum's landmark history traces how Soviet power dismantled civil society across Eastern Europe—from Poland to East Germany—turning a patchwork of nations into satellites of Moscow's will. Essential reading for understanding the geography of memory the Iron Curtain Trail now traverses.

Former US Secretary of State Albright uncovers her Czech Jewish family's fate during World War II, interweaving personal memoir with the tragic history of a city that survived Nazi occupation and then fell behind the Iron Curtain. A profound double portrait of Prague and a family's hidden past.