Themes in European History Since 1945 (Themes in Modern Europeanhistory)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 19, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415219884
First sentence: Over the period under review Europe divided sharply between free democracies and quasi-democracies, between open and closed societies, a split that prompted Winston Churchill to encapsulate the situation in his famous "Iron Curtain" address.