FRAGMENTS
NB this book is now in its SECOND EDITION: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1258870 The remains of the Iron Curtain on the ground and in the mind 20 years after the fall of the Wall
by Paul Kaye
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About the Book
NB This book is now in its SECOND EDITION - PLEASE GO TO THE FOLLOWING LINK to access this latest version, free of errors and typos! http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1258870
For forty years Europe was divided into two opposing ideological blocks, participants in a global Cold War between communist East and capitalist West. Where these political enemies met, the eastern regimes built an elaborate Iron Curtain, outwardly aimed at protecting themselves from western invasion but in reality to keep their dissatisfied populations captive. Twenty years after revolution removed the communist rulers, what remains of the barriers they erected along Europe’s political faultline? Journalist and photographer Paul Kaye cycled 3,600 kilometres along the route of the Iron Curtain, from the Baltic to the Adriatic and around Berlin, to record the physical remnants of the divide and the thoughts of those that lived along it.
For forty years Europe was divided into two opposing ideological blocks, participants in a global Cold War between communist East and capitalist West. Where these political enemies met, the eastern regimes built an elaborate Iron Curtain, outwardly aimed at protecting themselves from western invasion but in reality to keep their dissatisfied populations captive. Twenty years after revolution removed the communist rulers, what remains of the barriers they erected along Europe’s political faultline? Journalist and photographer Paul Kaye cycled 3,600 kilometres along the route of the Iron Curtain, from the Baltic to the Adriatic and around Berlin, to record the physical remnants of the divide and the thoughts of those that lived along it.
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- Primary Category: Travel
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 160 - Publish Date: Dec 08, 2009
- Keywords Czech Republic, West Germany, East Germany, Cold War, Berlin Wall, Iron Curtain, Italy, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia, czechrepublic, Czech, Czechoslovakia, Austria, GDR, DDR, westgermany, eastgermany, Germany, coldwar, division, Europe, borders, wall, berlinwall, Berlin, ironcurtain, Curtain, Iron
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About the Creator
Paul Kaye
London, UK
I am a translator for the European Commission in Brussels, working into English from several central and eastern European languages. For five years I was based at the EU's representative office in London, responsible for helping to promote language learning and the language industry. Before that I worked for a decade as an environment policy journalist. I now indulge my journalistic tendencies by crossing them with interests in culture, history, travel and photography.